Daguerreotype: 2932487 1848-1848
Summary
- Identification
- 2932487
- Image description
- Hand-coloured daguerreotype with gold highlights on tie-pin (with Prince-of-Wales feathers) and waistcoat of Prince Albert, seated and facing partly right. He has dark sideburns and a small moustache, his dark hair parted on the right. His left arm rests on the arm of the chair and his right rests on his lap. He is wearing a beige jacket and a dark brown waistcoat. The background is painted blue with white clouds and the daguerreotype is mounted under glass. On the reverse there is a label reading 'The Prince from Life 1848', handwritten by Queen Victoria. Prince Albert was an early enthusiast of photography and closely followed the development of the medium. In Febuary 1847 Kilburn showed examples of his coloured daguerreotypes, made by adding fine coloured powders to the photographic plate, to the Society of Arts. In 1848 Prince Albert commissioned a portrait using the new technique. This is one of two surviving hand-coloured daguerreotypes produced from the sitting.
- Dated
- Begin
- 1848
- End
- 1848
- Tags
- man; sideburns; side parting; moustache; tie pin; jewelry; backdrop; jacket; cravat; chair; waistcoat; hand-coloured
- Links
- http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2932486/prince-albert-1819-1861
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=1246
Marsden, J., 2010. 'Victoria and Albert Art and Love', Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd, p402
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort
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Object
- Identification
- 2932487
- Number of plates
- 1
- Remarks general
- Portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. / One of a pair of daguerreotypes of Prince Albert of of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later Consort of Queen Victoria. For published illustration see Marsden, J., 2010. 'Victoria and Albert Art and Love', Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd, p402, plate 356.
- Image description
- Hand-coloured daguerreotype with gold highlights on tie-pin (with Prince-of-Wales feathers) and waistcoat of Prince Albert, seated and facing partly right. He has dark sideburns and a small moustache, his dark hair parted on the right. His left arm rests on the arm of the chair and his right rests on his lap. He is wearing a beige jacket and a dark brown waistcoat. The background is painted blue with white clouds and the daguerreotype is mounted under glass. On the reverse there is a label reading 'The Prince from Life 1848', handwritten by Queen Victoria. Prince Albert was an early enthusiast of photography and closely followed the development of the medium. In Febuary 1847 Kilburn showed examples of his coloured daguerreotypes, made by adding fine coloured powders to the photographic plate, to the Society of Arts. In 1848 Prince Albert commissioned a portrait using the new technique. This is one of two surviving hand-coloured daguerreotypes produced from the sitting.
- Subject name
- Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (prince)
- Inscription
- On verso, in ink 'The Prince from life 1848.' Hand written by Queen Victoria.
- Keyword technique
- daguerreotype
- links
- http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2932486/prince-albert-1819-1861
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=1246
Marsden, J., 2010. 'Victoria and Albert Art and Love', Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd, p402
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort - Stereo plates
- No
- Window size
- Height
- 87 mm / 3.43 inch
- Width
- 64 mm / 2.52 inch
- Housing size
- Height
- 147 mm / 5.79 inch
- Width
- 122 mm / 4.8 inch
- Depth
- 5 mm / 0.2 inch
- Window shape
- Arched
- Housing shape
- Rectangle
- Dated
- Begin
- 1848
- End
- 1848
- Collection
- Identifier
- The Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom
- Description
- The Royal Collection Trust UK-PRI-RCT
- Creator
- Name
- Kilburn, William Edward
- notes
- Kilburn, William Edward D. Born at Ely Place, Holborn November 28 1818. Christened February 3 1819 in City of London 1 of 10 children. Married Louisa (1828 - 1892) had 1 son & 2 daughters. STUDIOS: 1. 234 Regent Street Feb 1847 - June 1855 then at 222 Regent Street South, Westminster. Advert in The Athenaeum 13/2/1847 number 1007, front page advertisement for Photographic Miniatures 234 Regent Street, Mr Kilburn checked 29/12/2023. Still at 234 Regent Street in Kelly’s Post Office Directory of London … 1852, page 834, see https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/181010/rec/2 Morning Chronicle 3rd of July 1855 advertisement by Kilburn that he has removed from 234 Regent Street to 222 Regent Street South. Times adverts February 9 1847; Illustrated London News February 20 1847 p 127; Athenaeum February 13 1847. 2. 277 Regent Street, Westminster July 1855 - 1863. 1851: photographer living at 234 Regent Street, Westminster. Living in Hampstead 1848 - 1855. 1855: photographer living at Woodbrooke, Cricklewood. 1861: photographer living at 16 Bridge Road, St John's Wood, St Marylebone. 1881: retired merchant living at St Rhadegund, Whitwell, Isle of Wight. 1891: retired merchant living as above. Eldest brother, Douglas (1811 - 1871) became one of Australia's earliest photographers. Royal patronage; self - styled "Her Majesty's Daguerrotypist". Commissioned by Prince Albert to photograph Chartist demonstration March 1848. Photo of General James Napier on view at Hering & Remington March 1849. Employed miniaturist Mansion 1847 - he left in May 1848 to work exclusively for Barratt. Photographed Richard Cobden while serving as commissioner for Great Exhibition 1851. Stereoscope registered January 12 1853 (Athenaeum February 13 1847 & March 26 1853). Exhibited James Robertson's photos of Crimean War January 1856 (reviewed Art Journal February 1856 p 62); claimed sole agency in their sale. Introduced Woodward solar camera to studio 1859. Great Exhibition 1851 - award in Class 10 No 294. International Exhibition 1862 - honorary mention for colour photos in Class XIV No 3108. Died in Whitwell, Isle of Wight December 11 1891. LITERATURE: list of journal articles in Johnson; Daguerreotype studies. Messrs Kilburn and Highschool. IN Athenaeum April 17 1847; Helio. (Brief account of studio). IN Humphrey's Journal Vol 14 March 15 1853 p 365; Werge; David A Wooters. Daguerreotype portraits by William E Kilburn. IN Image Vol 33 1990 pp 21 - 29, illus (portraits reproduced as engravings in Illustrated London News 1850 -1852). BIBLIOGRAPHY: The British photographic portrait gallery. 6 pts. London, Mason & Co, 1861. Card - mounted sepia tones, each with 1 or 2 pp text (uncredited). Price 1 shilling. 1. January 1861. Archbishop of Canterbury. 2. February 1861. Sir John Taylor Coleridge. 3. March 1861 Earl of Derby. 4. April 1861. Richard Monckton Milnes. 5. May 1861. Edward Cardwell. 6. June 1861. Dean of St Paul's. Athenaeum adverts January 12 & August 3 1861. From Photolondon Kilburn wurde am 28.11.1818 als eines von zehn Kindern seiner Eltern geboren. 1846 eröffnete er unter der Adresse Regent Street, Westminster, sein erstes Atelier, das bis zum Juli 1855 dort bestand. Der für Londons Fotogarfiegeschichte bedeutsame Fotograf trat zwischen 1846 und 1852 mit zahlreichen daguerreschen Bildnissen der königlichen Familie hervor. Als erster englischer Lichtbildner erhielt er den Titel eines Hofphotographen des britischen Königshauses. Zur Weltausstellung 1851 erhielt er eine Preismedaille. Kilburns Daguerreotypien zeichnen sich durch herausragende Kolorierung aus. Kilburn gehörte neben Claudet, Beard und Mayall zu den kommerziell erfolgreichsten Daguerreotypisten Londons. (J.V.); William Edward Kilburn, der erste der vielen «Photographer To Her Majesty And Royal Highness», war einer der erfolgreichsten Fotografen in London. Mit seinen, in einem eigenen Stil kolorierten Porträts gewann er an der ersten Weltausstellung in London 1851 eine Medaille. Wie Richard Beard (1801–1885), Antoine Claudet (1797–1867) und John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810–1901) begann er nach der Weltausstellung stereoskopische Daguerreotypien zu machen. Kilburn hatte den von ihm entwickelten zusammenklappbaren stereoskopischen Taschenbetrachter patentieren lassen: «Kilburn’s Stereoscope, gesetzlich geschützt am 12. Januar 1853». Nach dem Aufklappen des Etuis konnte eine Platte mit zwei Betrachtungslinsen im Augenabstand hochgeklappt werden, so dass ein Stereoskop entstand. Durch die zwei Linsen wurden die Einzelbilder der Stereo-Daguerreotypie getrennt betrachtet und deshalb das Bild dreidimensional wahrgenommen. Vor allem nachdem Sir David Brewsters neues Stereoskop 1851 im Kristallpalast in London vorgestellt worden war, begann sich die «Stereomanie» auszubreiten, und einige Fotografen entwickelten eigene Betrachtermodelle. Taschenbetrachter, die direkt ins Etui der Daguerreotypien integriert waren, boten verschiedene Daguerreotypisten an. In Amerika entwickelten u. a. John F. Mascher und John Stull, beide aus Philadelphia, eigene Taschenbetrachter, in Deutschland Trutpert Schneider und in Österreich die Optiker Rospini und Waldstein. Kilburn, der einen ausgeprägten Geschäftssinn besass und in der Fotografie ein Mittel zur Massenproduktion von Miniaturmalereien sah, griff die aufgekommene Stereo-Daguerreotypie sofort auf. Er setzte auch hier seine Tradition der vollständigen Kolorierung der Platte fort. (in: Perret, Kunst und Magie der Daguerreotypie, 2006)
- nationality
- United Kingdom
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Housing
- Mat
- Material
- Cardboard
- Color
- White
- Decoration design
- line decoration
- Spacing paper
- Painted
- No
- Texture
- No
- Present
- Unknown
- Painted
- Unknown
- Case
- Binding
- Frame
- Material
- Paper
- Colour
- Gold
- Finishing paper
- Backing
- Material
- Cardboard
- Label annotations
- Hand-written in ink by Queen Victoria 'The Prince from life 1848'.
- Recessed
- Unknown
- Access panel present
- Unknown
- Hanging system
- Present
- Unknown
- Finishing paper
- Unknown
- Cover glass
- Present
- Yes
- Painted
- No
- Strass
- Unknown
- Decoration
- None
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