A carte-de-visite portrait of Prince Leopold (1853-84), later Duke of Albany, with this tutor the Reverend Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911). A full-length portrait, with Rev Duckworth seated on a rustic stool, one leg on a rock, left arm bent at the hip; Prince Leopold stands to left, with one hand on Duckworth's shoulder and the other holding his walking stick (he suffered from chronic leg joint pains, partly due to his haemophilia). The photograph may have been taken in Hills & Saunders' photographic studio in Eton; the set-up is more elaborate than the usual royal sittings.

Robinson Duckworth was Prince Leopold's Tutor and Governor during 1866-70. He was also held a variety of roles in Queen Victoria's Household, as well as Chaplain to King Edward VII when Prince of Wales, on his 1875-6 tour of India. His other claim to fame was that he was one of the first people to hear the story of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', as recited by Lewis Carroll, along with Alice Liddell and her sister, while rowing in a boat in Oxford, in 1862. Lewis Carroll also photographed Prince Leopold, while he was at Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Prince Leopold inherited haemophilia from Queen Victoria and as a child suffered greatly from bleeds and chronic leg joint pains. Despite this, he was able to study at the University of Oxford, take part in some military duties and toured Canada, with his sister Princess Louise and her husband, the Marquess of Lorne, who was Governor General of Canada. He also married in 1882 Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont and had two children before he died in 1884.