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The Cruise of HMS Bacchante 1879-82: Group photograph on board HMS Inconstant, 1881 1881
Albumen print | 15.3 x 20.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2580884
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The Cruise of HMS Bacchante 1879-82: Group photograph on board HMS Inconstant, 1881 1881
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Group photograph of officers, midshipmen and cadets standing on board HMS Inconstant and facing the viewer.
Prince Louis of Battenberg was assigned to HMS Inconstant and dined with Princes Albert Victor and George on board the ship.
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
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15.3 x 20.6 cm (image)
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The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882. Volume IV, Australia, Fiji.
