Potter family and friends and society figures
Rupert William Potter (1833–1914)
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Leather, Paper
Measurements
322 x 252 mm
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242443
Summary
Album of photographs of members of the Potter family, friends, and society figures, and some topographical views, dated c1860-70. Subjects include Lord Palmerston, Lord Westbury, Tennyson, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Dickens, Thackeray, Princess Beatrice, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria, views of Paris, Dovedale, Bodiam Castle. The album cover is brown embossed leather with 2 brass clasps. There are 109 photos stuck in the album. There are multiple pages where photographs were previously stuck in, the adhesive residue left indicates 64 photos were stuck into the album which are no longer there.
Makers and roles
Rupert William Potter (1833–1914), manufacturer