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Title(s)
The Royal album.
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Published/Created
London, ca. 1860-1861.
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Physical Description
1 album (20 photographs) ; 16 x 13 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TR680.M3 R6 1860
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Photographs
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Notes
"In May 1860 J.E. Mayall took carte portraits of Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort and their children. These were published three months later in the Royal Album, which set the fashion for collecting cartes of celebrities as well as one's friends, and putting them in albums."--Gernsheim, H. A concise history of photography.
Title from front cover.
The cartes-de-visite are placed in 20 card-mount leaves, with windows for display on the recto only, each leaf with a printed gilt surround to the aperture, and beneath a printed 'imprint': "F.R.G. BREVETE S.G.D.G.". The brown morocco album is stamped in blind, with gilt-stamped royal arms and title (The Royal Album) at center of the front cover.
Gernsheim, H. History of photography, page 295
Gernsheim, H. Concise history of photography, page 55
Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, page 908
Album containing 20 carte-de-visite portraits of members of the British royal family taken by photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall and others in the early 1860s. Includes Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Princess Beatrice, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Leopold, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Mary of Cambridge. The cartes were the first set of photographs of the Royal Family to be public available. -
Subject Terms
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861 -- Portraits. | Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844–1925 -- Portraits. | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1844–1900 -- Portraits. | Alice, Grand Duchess, consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1843–1878 -- Portraits. | Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught, 1850–1942 -- Portraits. | Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1857–1944 -- Portraits. | Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910 -- Portraits. | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Helena Augusta Victoria, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1846–1923 -- Portraits. | Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany, 1853–1884 -- Portraits. | Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, 1848–1939 -- Portraits. | Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840–1901 -- Portraits. | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 -- Portraits.
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Form/Genre
Albumen prints. | Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) | Photograph albums. | Photographs. | Portraits.
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