Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Inside Queen Victoria"s family photo album: Intimate snaps of the monarch"s ...


  • New muster includes 200 singular images from a Royal Archive

  • Queen Victoria amassed some-more than 20,000 photos during her life

  • Many are insinuate family portraits, some featuring a Queen herself

  • Others request poignant events such as a Crimean War


By

Ruth Styles



PUBLISHED:


12:41, 29 Jan 2014


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UPDATED:


15:05, 29 Jan 2014



From a invention of a write to a bicycle and even a steam ship, a Victorian duration saw a mini series in a margin of scholarship and technology.


But of all a new gadgets invented during her reign, it was a camera that gay Queen Victoria a most.


By a time she died in 1901, a UK’s initial complicated sovereign had amassed a outrageous collection of some-more than 20,000 images that enclosed all from favourite landscapes to early fight photography and touching snaps of pets, friends and children.


The Prince of Wales, a Princess Royal, Princess Alice, a Queen andPrince Alfred, photographed by Roger Fenton in 1854


Family portrait: Queen Victoria and 5 of her children in an insinuate snap taken by Roger Fenton in 1854



The Royal Family during home: An 1857 mural of a Royal Family taken by Leonida Caldesi in 1857


The Royal Family during home: An 1857 mural of a Royal Family taken by Leonida Caldesi in 1857



Now some of a frequency seen photos from her repository are to be enclosed in a fascinating new muster that papers Queen Victoria’s passion for photography and offers a glance of a Royals’ family print album.



Although many of a photos sojourn in a Windsor Castle archive, 200 stately photos will seem during a Getty Center in Los Angeles, including many by early greats such as Roger Fenton,  Leonida Caldesi and William Edward Kilburn.


Among them is a touching family mural featuring Queen Victoria and 5 of her 9 children; a Princess Royal, a Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Princess Helena and Prince Alfred, taken in Jan 1852.


More uncover a Queen relaxing during Balmoral, spending time with her husband, Prince Albert, or posing for grave portraits during her widowhood.


Carefree childhood: Princesses Helena and Louise graphic personification in a garden by Roger Fenton in 1856


Carefree childhood: Princesses Helena and Louise graphic personification in a garden by Roger Fenton in 1856



The Queen and Prince Albert, May 11, 1854, photographed by Roger Fenton


Queen Victoria


A Queen remembered: Victoria with Prince Albert in 1841 (left) and a Diamond Jubilee mural of 1893



Not amused: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught seems reduction than anxious to be starring in this Leonida Caldesi photo


Not amused: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught seems reduction than anxious to be starring in this Caldesi photo



Other members of a Royal family also appear, among them Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria’s seventh child, and her consort, Prince Albert, both of whom seem in central photos.


Another, some-more insinuate snap shows Princesses Helena and Louise in relating tartan ensembles in a garden during Balmoral during a summer jaunt.


But nonetheless family photos dominate, a Queen’s seductiveness in photography wasn’t singular to cinema of her father and children.


Photos of some of a Royal palaces, among them Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, seem as do snaps documenting some of a many vicious events of a Victorian period.


One, by William Henry Fox Talbot, shows Nelson’s Column underneath construction in Trafalgar Square in 1844, while another chronicles a launch of a pioneering steamship, a Great Eastern, underneath a sharp eye of a engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.


Albert Hautecoeur


Favourite palace: This photo, dating from a 1880s, shows a Round Tower during Windsor Castle



Pioneer: This shot of Nelson


Pioneer: This shot of Nelson’s Column was taken by William Henry Fox Talbot, a contriver of a camera



Poignantly, another, snapped by justice favourite Roger Fenton, shows a issue of a Charge of a Light Brigade during a Crimean War.


Considered one of a initial fight photographers, Fenton trafficked to a Crimea underneath a clientele of Prince Albert and returned with 350 images, among them harrowing shots display a destruction combined by a Siege of Sevastopol and a Battle of Balaclava.


His famous photo, The Valley of Death, depicting a mark where a Light Brigade met a finish is partial of Victoria’s collection, along with others documenting events such as a Indian Mutiny from around a Empire.


Although a penetrating collector, Queen Victoria never took any photographs of her own, nonetheless her children all embraced a medium.


But nonetheless she chose not to get concerned in formulating her possess images, her gusto for collecting photos, as a new muster creates plain, helped safety some of a many distinguished depictions of a Victorian duration for destiny generations to enjoy.


A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography opens during a Getty Center in Los Angeles on 4th February. See getty.edu for some-more information


Innovation: Isambard Kingdom Brunel examination a launch of a Great Eastern, a initial steamship, in 1857


Innovation: Isambard Kingdom Brunel examination a launch of a steamship, Great Eastern, in 1857



Valley of a Shadow of Death: The cannonball dirty issue of a Charge of a Light Brigade, 1855


Valley of a Shadow of Death: The cannonball dirty issue of a Charge of a Light Brigade, 1855




ROGER FENTON: THE WORLD’S FIRST WAR PHOTOGRAPHER


From a Siege of Sevastopol to a Charge of a Light Brigade, Roger Fenton’s distinguished shots taken in a Crimea are among a initial fight photographs ever taken.


So who was a world’s initial fight photographer? Born into a rich Lancashire family, Fenton was a fourth of 7 children.


He graduated with a grade in English, maths, Greek and Latin from Oxford University in 1840 and designed to investigate law before giving it adult in foster of excellent art.


After stints in Paris, in a studio of Paul Delaroche and during a Louvre, he returned to London only in time for a Great Exhibition of 1851 where he detected photography.


Taught by early pioneer, Gustave Le Grey, within a year, Fenton was exhibiting his work national and opposite Europe, and in 1853, helped found what would turn a Royal Photographic Society underneath a clientele of Prince Albert.


But it wasn’t until fight pennyless out in Oct 1853 between a British, Ottoman and French Empires on one side, and a Russian Empire on a other, that a photos that would conclude him in after years were taken.


Encouraged by Prince Albert, he trafficked to a Crimea, evidently to emanate photographs that would pitch open opinion in foster of a unpopular fight and negate a vicious reports being sent home by The Times’ William Howard Russell.


Based in a Crimea for only underneath 18 months, a 350 images he took are among a many fast portraits of a Crimean War though did small to opposite a disastrous open reaction.


Much to his annoyance, when they went on sale following his return, a prints valid only as unpopular as a fight itself with a profitable public.


His after career was spent travelling a length and extent of a UK, formulating overwhelming landscape photographs that valid distant some-more commercially successful.


In 1859, during his home in Potter’s Bar in Hertfordshire, Fenton died after a week-long illness. He was only 50 years old.









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Mucius,


Ottawa,


14 mins ago


In a 1854 family mural they demeanour so filthy and poor.





ME,


Wellington, United Kingdom,


25 mins ago


Would have been such a duty carrying your print taken behind then….. positively weren’t ‘snap’ shots!!!!! It contingency have been so tough and unequivocally tedious to have to stay still for a time it took……





Briancito,


Aurora,


28 mins ago


While positively unequivocally early, Fenton was not a initial fight photographer. Photos exist from a Mexican-American War of 1845-1848.






BRITISH AND PROUD,


yorks, United Kingdom,


1 hour ago


A truly happy looking bunch,






No Nonsense,


Lancaster, United States,


1 hour ago


Everyone looks miserable in selected photos. You did not brave move. You had to reason a poise for some-more than 10 minutes. Any transformation would means a print to be blurry. Just saying…





Jeana – Dallas,


Dallas, United States,


2 hours ago


Not a genuine good looking garland of Royals, huh? Times haven’t altered all that many either.





kelz0okm,


GREAT Britain, United Kingdom,


1 hour ago


Yea and your initial families have all been stunning!





Ishouldbequeen,


Oxfordshire,


2 hours ago


I gamble a photographer wasn’t yelling “everyone contend cheeeeeese” when these were taken.





Lady Zil,


Zurich,


2 hours ago


……Victoria and Albert were initial cousins!!, right?? UGH!!





Fiametta,


Hyde Park, United States,


2 hours ago


First-cousin marriages used to be common, even among non-royals. They’re still not bootleg in many of a world. we competence indicate out that even a Bible approves of them.





yvonne horak,


garment towen,


2 hours ago


Disgusting partial of British History !





Lady Zil,


Zurich,


2 hours ago


….on point!! one of their daughters had a child out of wedlock; and a good bizarreness that after Albert death, Victoria ‘started depending on for everything’ on a manservant from Scotland!!





Surf girl21,


Los Angeles, United States,


2 hours ago


They don’t demeanour happy during all! They demeanour frozen! Weird looks kind

Of scary..





pg58,


Loveland, United States,


2 hours ago


Because a shiver remained open for so prolonged with those aged cameras (many seconds) many subjects did not smile. If we demeanour during chronological photos, you’ll customarily see these same expressions.





Fiametta,


Hyde Park, United States,


2 hours ago


It took a prolonged time to get an bearing in those days. People had to lay or mount there forever, too prolonged to reason a smile. They were not comfortable.



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