Queen Victoria and family - a collage of individual photographs
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810 - 1901)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 97 x 62 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519409
Summary
Monochrome albumen carte de visite, with collage of 9 oval vignette portraits of the Victorian royal family. Top row, left: three quarter length portrait of young woman in outdoor clothing (Princess Victoria). Top row, centre: full length portrait of young girl (Princess Beatrice) in pale dress (June 1860). Top row, right: full length portrait of Princess Alice, seated (May 1860). Centre row, left: half length portrait of young man (Prince Alfred) in formal dress. Centre row, centre: Portrait of Queen Victoria (seated) and Prince Albert (standing), half length (May 1860). Centre row, right: half length portrait of young man (Prince Albert Edward) in formal army uniform. Bottom row, left: three quarter portrait of Princess Louise (June 1860). Bottom row, centre: full length portrait of two boys wearing kilts (L: Prince Leopold; R: Prince Arthur) seated next to each other (June 1860). Bottom row, right: three quarter portrait of (Princess Helena) holding a book (May 1860). All photographs taken by John Jabez Edwin Mayall with the possible exception of Princess Victoria (reference Royal Collection). The print is mounted on white card.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: "Photographic portraits of the royal family of Great Britain" - mark of photographic series
Makers and roles
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810 - 1901), photographer