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? Melbourne : Foster & Martin
King George V (1865-1936) when Prince George of Wales, 1881 1881
Albumen print | 9.4 x 5.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2580706
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Photograph of a half length portrait of Prince George of Wales seated, hands clasped, looking to the right.
The portrait may have been taken during the Prince Albert Victor and Prince George's visit to Australia, where they were photographed at three photographic studios including Foster and Martin, Tuttle and Johnstone and O'Shanassy.
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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Albumen print
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9.4 x 5.5 cm (image)
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The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882. Volume III, Bermuda, South America, Cape Town, Australia.[]
