Photograph of the house of Mr.Dundas, the Lieutenant Governor, amongst palm and other trees, on St Vincent.

On Febraury 9th 1880, Princes Albert Victor and George attended a dance that was given by Mr Dundas at Government House. The house was built within the Botanic Gardens. The house was described as being made 'entirely of wood' and 'one of the most prettily situated in the West Indies, among its groves of nutmeg and palm trees, but in rather a dilapidated condition. A new one is about to be built.' From The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-82, London, p.100 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.