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Sir John Moore's grave, San Carlo Gardens, overlooking Harbour and the Spanish Hills 1880
Albumen print | 16.5 x 22.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2580603
Unknown Person
Sir John Moore's grave, San Carlo Gardens, overlooking Harbour and the Spanish Hills 1880
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Photograph of a park with sarcophagus on a plinth surrounded by walls topped with railings and urn on each corner (centre), situated on old fort overlooking the bay, A Coruña, Spain. Sir John Moore was a Scottish Army Lieutenant General who was killed in 1809 during the Battle of Corunna. Prince's Albet Victor and Prince George visited the grave on the 30th September 1880 during their visit to A Coruña.
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.
Provenance
Album compiled by the Reverend J N Dalton (1839-1931) and presented to King George V
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
16.5 x 22.5 cm (image)
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Sir John Moore's grave, San Carlo Gardens, overlooking Harbour and the Spanish Hills. [The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882. Volume III, Bermuda, South America, Cape Town, Australia].
