Photograph of a two story building comprising 7 bays flanked by single bay wings. On the ground floor is an arcade supported by columns. The façade is built in the Jacobean style. On plan, the building forms the shape of an 'E'.

The Prince Alfred Hospital is now known simply as 'The Alfred Hospital' or the 'Alfred', and was founded in 1871. It was named after Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh who was wounded during an assassination attempt. On July 14th Prince Albert Victor and Prince George visited the hospital in Melbourne which they compared in terms of architectural style to St Thomas's Hospital on the Thames Embankment. The Prince's were shown around the hospital by the Chief Justice of New South Wales by Sir Alfred Stephen (1802-94).

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.