Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Album of cartes-de-visite depicting royalty of Britain and Europe and other contemporary notables.
Published / Created:
Great Britain, 1860-1862.
Physical Description:
1 album (50 photographs) ; 15 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:13044978
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
Bound in later (?) blind-stamped morocco, with brass clasp.
Contents:
[1] Manuscript inscriptions -- [2] Henry W. Longfellow -- [3] Queen Victoria -- [4] Lord Palmerston -- [5] Prince Albert -- [6] Leopold II of Belgium -- [7] Princess Helena -- [8] Princess Marie of Baden -- [9] Princess Louise -- [10] The comte de Paris -- [11] Prince Alfred -- [12] Alfred Tennyson -- [13] Princess Alice -- [14] Archibald Campbell Tait -- [15] Victoria, Princess Royal -- [16] Louis Napoléon, Prince Impérial -- [17] Princess Beatrice -- [18] Empress Eugénie -- [19] Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck -- [20] Pedro V, King of Portugal -- [21] Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia -- [22] The duc de Chartres -- [23] Prince Louis (Ludwig) of Hesse -- [24] Abdel Kader, i.e. ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn, Amir of Mascara -- [25] Duleep Singh -- [26] Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde -- [27] Lord Canning -- [28] Napoleon III -- [29] Victor Emanuel, King of Italy -- [30] Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour -- [31] President Lincoln -- [32] Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet -- [33] Duchess of Wellington -- [34] Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury -- [35] Sir John Coleridge -- [36] The Duke of Richmond -- [37] The Earl of Elgin -- [38] "The Four Napoleons" -- [39] Sir John Lawrence -- [40] W.E. Gladstone -- [41] Prince Arthur -- [42] Ravey (?) the American horse trainer (?) -- [43] Florence Nightingale -- [44] Charles Dickens -- [45] W.M. Thackeray -- [46] Albert Smith of Mont Blanc celebrity -- [47] James Braidwood, of the fire brigade.
Subject Terms:
ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn, Amir of Mascara, 1807?-1883 -- Portraits. | Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Portraits. | Alford, Henry, 1810-1871 -- 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. | Braidwood, James, 1800-1861 -- Portraits. | Canning, Charles John, 1812-1862 -- Portraits. | Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861 -- Portraits. | Chartres, Robert-Philippe-Louis-Eugène-Ferdinand d'Orléans, duc de, 1840-1910 -- Portraits. | Clyde, Colin Campbell, Baron, 1792-1863 -- Portraits. | Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894 -- Portraits. | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Portraits. | Duleep Singh, Maharajah, 1838-1893 -- Portraits. | Elgin, James Bruce, Earl of, 1811-1863 -- Portraits. | Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920 -- Portraits. | Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888 -- Portraits. | Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 -- Portraits. | Helena Augusta Victoria, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1846-1923 -- Portraits. | Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1811-1879 -- Portraits. | Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909 -- Portraits. | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Portraits. | Louis Napoléon, Prince Impérial of the French, 1856-1879 -- Portraits. | Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, 1848-1939 -- Portraits. | Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1837-1892 -- Portraits. | Mary, Princess, Duchess of Teck, 1833-1897 -- Portraits. | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 -- Portraits. | Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Portraits. | Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865 -- Portraits. | Paris, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans, comte de, 1838-1894 -- Portraits. | Pedro V, King of Portugal, 1837-1861 -- Portraits. | Peel, Robert, 1822-1895 -- Portraits. | Richmond, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of, 1818-1903 -- Portraits. | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfred, Duke of, 1844-1900 -- Portraits. | Smith, Albert, 1816-1860 -- Portraits. | Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1811-1882 -- Portraits. | Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Portraits. | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 -- Portraits. | Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1820-1878 -- Portraits. | Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901 -- Portraits. | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Portraits. | Wellington, Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of, 1820-1904 -- Portraits. | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Nobility -- Great Britain -- Portraits. | Nobility -- Europe -- Portraits.
Form/Genre:
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) | Albumen prints. | Photographs. | Photograph albums. | Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Doughty, Chester, 1838-1908. | Doughty, Mary Ann, -1879. | Disdéri & Cie, photographer.