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| 1. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Queen Victoria Tintype, 1/16 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 161) In English hanging style preserver |
| 2. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Queen Victoria (reverse) Tintype, 1/16 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 161) In English hanging style preserver |
| 3. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. The Queen and Prince Consort Carte de visite, albumen Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 4. |  | George Washington Wilson 1863 Queen Victoria on 'Fyvie' with John Brown at Balmoral Carte de visite 9.20 x 6.10 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland, Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985 (PGP R 884) |
| 5. |  | Charles Clifford n.d. Queen Victoria Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 167) |
| 6. |  | Gunn & Stuart 1897 Queen Victoria Cabinet card Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 176) Taken at Buckingham Palace in 1897 during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the same year. She is wearing a bracelet brooch with an Ambrotype of her beloved Prince Albert and she appears to be holding a stereo Daguerreotype. |
| 7. |  | Roger Fenton 1856 (ca) Queen Victoria Albumen print National Science and Media Museum The Royal Photographic Society, Ref number: 2003-5001/2/20105 |
| 8. |  | John Charles Stovin 1858-1862 Her Majesty the Queen (Victoria) Microphotograph slide Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D. |
| 9. |  | William Edward Kilburn 1848 Prince Albert (1819-61) Daguerreotype, hand-coloured 8.6 x 6.3 cm Royal Photograph Collection The Royal Collection ® 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 2932487 This photograph was included in the exhibition Victoria & Albert: Art & Love at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 31 October 2010. Commissioned by Prince Albert. In 2010 this photograph was uploaded to flickr by The British Monarchy. |
| 10. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. H.R.H. the Prince Consort, Albert Carte de visite, albumen Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 11. |  | John Charles Stovin 1858-1862 His Royal Highness Prince Albert Microphotograph slides Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D. This exists in two label variants, with the word 'late' added after Prince Albert's death in 1861), |
| 12. |  | Henry Hering 1862, 31 May The Kings and Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria Advertisement Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D. The photograph includes the 83 monarchs ruling England from the Norman Conquest to Queen Victoria. Comments by Prof. Brian Stevenson Henry Hering issued a cdv-sized version of the kings and queens montage in 1862. The illustrated advertisement is from the May 31, 1862 issue of The Bookseller, and indicates when Hering began selling these cards. Note that Reeves' slides with this image were described in 1859. Thus, it is not clear whether Hering produced this montage 3 years before he published the cdv, if Reeves produced the montage and later sold the rights to Hering, or if a third person originally made it. Noting that Hering claimed copyright for the cdv image but the Reeves microphotographs do not mention copyright, I think the last two possibilities are more likely |
| 13. |  | Alfred Reeves n.d. Photograph. The Kings & Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria. Contains 85 Portraits. A.R. Microscope slide Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D. Original photographs courtesy of David Evans. The original photograph which was copied for this photomicrograph was by Henry Hering (1814-1893). See the carte de visite version from 1862 in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG Ax131392). Thanks to T. Max Hochstetler for passing on this information (email to Alan Griffiths, 16 June 2011). Contemporary comments: "Mr. Alfred Reeves has recently forwarded to us a specimen of one of those minute pictures, which consists of a plate containing the portraits of kings and queens of England since the time of the Conquest. Here, on a space not larger than 1/16 of an inch square, may be perceived a miniature "National Portrait Gallery" with a portrait of every king and queen surrounding her Majesty, who is properly made the centre figure of the interesting group." ("Micro-Photography" The Photographic News, Volume 2, March 18, 1859, p.15) |
| 14. |  | Henry Hering 1862 The Kings and Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria Carte de visite Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D. The photograph includes the 83 monarchs ruling England from the Norman Conquest to Queen Victoria. Comments by Prof. Brian Stevenson Henry Hering issued a cdv-sized version of the kings and queens montage in 1862. The illustrated advertisement is from the May 31, 1862 issue of The Bookseller, and indicates when Hering began selling these cards. Note that Reeves' slides with this image were described in 1859. Thus, it is not clear whether Hering produced this montage 3 years before he published the cdv, if Reeves produced the montage and later sold the rights to Hering, or if a third person originally made it. Noting that Hering claimed copyright for the cdv image but the Reeves microphotographs do not mention copyright, I think the last two possibilities are more likely |
| 15. |  | Camille Silvy 1861, 3 July Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 16. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Edward Carte de visite, albumen Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 17. |  | W. & D. Downey n.d. Princess Alice Carte de visite Paul Frecker Paul Frecker provides the following comments: "Princess Alice, seen here in riding habit, was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In July 1862, a few months after the death of her father, she married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. The bride wore a black trousseau and the marriage, the Queen herself said, was more like a funeral than a wedding. Though Lord Clarendon considered him 'a dull boy' coming from 'a dull family in a dull country', and the Duchess of Cambridge thought it 'an insignificant match', Alice was delighted with her partner. She died of diphtheria at the age of thirty-five on 14 December 1878, the seventeenth anniversary of her father's death, a loss which occasioned a letter from her elder sister to their mother of thirty-nine pages. Photographed by William and Daniel Downey of 4, Eldon Square, Newcastle." |
| 18. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. Prince Alfred in naval uniform Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 171) Son of Queen Victoria and Albert, The Prince Consort. |
| 19. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. Princess Louisa Carte de visite, albumen Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 20. |  | J.E. Mayall n.d. Prince Arthur Carte de visite, albumen Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 21. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1860-1870 Princess Beatrice Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 170) Daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, The Prince Consort. |
| 22. |  | Alexander Bassano n.d. Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Cabinet card Paul Frecker Photographed by Messrs. Bassano of Old Bond Street, London, and King's Road, Brighton. |
| 23. |  | Southwell Brothers n.d. Princess Alexandra Carte de visite, hand-coloured Paul Frecker Photographed by the Southwell brothers of 16 and 22 Baker Street, London, identified recto in the lower margn and verso by their backplate. |
| 24. |  | W. & D. Downey 1868, September Princess Alexandra with her daughter, Princess Louise Carte de visite Paul Frecker Paul Frecker provides the following comments: "A carte-de-visite showing Princess Alexandra with her daughter, Princess Louise, born in 1867. Taken in September 1868, it was intended to show that the Princess had fully recovered from the bout of rheumatic fever which had struck her in the late winter / early spring of 1867. It proved to be the most popular carte-de-visite of its day. In 1885 Downey remembered that somewhere in the region of 300,000 copies had been sold, and it's not hard to see why. Compared to the stiffness and formality of most portraiture at this time, and Royal portraiture in particular, the freshness and spontaneity is like a splash of cold water!" |
| 25. |  | Roger Fenton 1856 (ca) Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught Albumen print National Science and Media Museum The Royal Photographic Society, Ref number: 2003-5001/2/20104 |
| 26. |  | Roger Fenton 1855 The Princess Royal and Princess Alice Albumen print National Science and Media Museum The Royal Photographic Society, Ref number: 2003-5001/2/20106 |
| 27. |  | Roger Fenton 1856 Princess Helena and Princess Louise Albumen print National Science and Media Museum The Royal Photographic Society, Ref number: 2003-5001/2/20108 |
| 28. |  | Roger Fenton 1856 Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh Albumen print National Science and Media Museum The Royal Photographic Society, Ref number: 2003-5001/2/20110 |
| 29. |  | Loescher & Petsch n.d. Wilhelm I - King of Prussia and German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser) Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 55) In 1871 he became Kaiser Wilhelm I the first Emperor of Germany. |
| 30. |  | Numa Blanc n.d. Kaiser Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig I - Kaiser Wilhelm I Carte de visite Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 31. |  | Numa Blanc n.d. Augusta Marie Luise Katharina of Saxe-Weimar - Kaiserin Augusta Carte de visite Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 32. |  | Reichard & Lindner 1884 Kaiser Wilhelm I Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 33. |  | L. Hasse (Berlin) 1865 (ca) Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl III - later Friedrich III Carte de visite Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 34. |  | Serge Levitsky 1860s (ca) Princess Victoria of Prussia Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 35. |  | L. Hasse (Berlin) 1865 (ca) Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise - eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - later Kaiserin Victoria Carte de visite Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 36. |  | J. Mayhew (London) 1867 (ca) Prince Friedrich & Family Carte de visite Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 37. |  | J.C. Schaarwächter 1885 Kaiser Friedrich III Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler The dating of this card is problematic as it is embossed with the date 1885 but Kaiser Friedrich III was only emperor for a few months in 1888 after the death of his father Wilhelm I. The card is clearly labelled and embossed and it may be that the Schaarwachter studio embossed them according to the date that the photographs were taken rather than the date the cabinet card was issued. Thanks to T. Max Hochstetler and Dr Robin Lenman for their comments on this photograph. |
| 38. |  | Photographische Gesellschaft (Berlin) 1880s (ca) Friedrich, Kaiser von Deutschland Cabinet card Ebay Item number: 290615506138 He ascended the throne as the Emperor Frederick III in 1888 but died of throat cancer after reigning only 99 days. This is a photograph of a pastel drawing by Heinrich von Angeli (ca. 1874) in the collection of Neues Palais in Potsdam. |
| 39. |  | Photographische Gesellschaft (Berlin) 1880s (ca) Victoria, Kaiserin von Deutschland Cabinet card Ebay Item number: 290615506138 Princess Victoria was the first child of Queen Victoria. |
| 40. |  | Hermann Selle 1875 (ca) Crown Prince Wilhelm Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler Hermann Selle (Potsdam) Prince Wilhelm was born with a lamed left arm and took great lengths to disguise the fact as he posed for photographs. At times he is viewed holding things with his left hand, although he had preference to turning his left side away from the camera. |
| 41. |  | Bieber Family 1892 Kaiser Wilhelm II Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler © Klaus Niermann - studioniermann.de/html/bieber.html |
| 42. |  | Edmund Risse (Berlin) 1883 Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein - Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, "Donna" Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 43. |  | Loescher & Petsch 1889 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 44. |  | Selle & Kuntze (Potsdam) 1887 Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 45. |  | J.C. Schaarwächter 1896 Wilhelm II & Family Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 46. |  | J.C. Schaarwächter 1896 Kaiser Wilhelm II Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 47. |  | Thomas Heinrich Voigt 1907 Kaiser Wilhelm II Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler |
| 48. |  | Abdullah frères n.d. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#14 / 173) |
| 49. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 Napoléon III Carte de visite Paul Frecker Legend has it that photography is indebted to Napoléon III for the success of the carte-de-visite. Although the carte camera was patented by Disdéri in 1854, the craze supposedly didn't take off until the Emperor, while leading his army to war in Italy, stopped off to have his portrait taken in the new format at Disdéri's studio on the Boulevard des Italiens. Unfortunately, the story is apocryphal. Research has shown not only that the departing French army did not pass down the Boulevard des Italiens, but also that it left Paris late in the evening when there was not enough natural light for any photographer to operate. |
| 50. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 Empress Eugénie Carte de visite Paul Frecker While Winterhalter painted her in the low-cut evening dresses concocted for her by Worth, photographs of Eugénie depicted her as a demure, well-dressed woman. As the wife of the head of state, she was expected to embody the virtues of Second Empire womanhood, while promoting French fashions and fabrics. The modest, introverted poses she invariably adopted for her official photographs were inspired by the fashion plates of the day. |
| 51. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 The Imperial family Carte de visite Paul Frecker Napoléon III grasped the power of manipulating his public image through visual propaganda, and firmly embraced the medium of photography. Despite his string of mistresses, he presents himself here as the apogee of bourgeois respectability and moral probity, the archetypal family man. |
| 52. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 The Empress Eugénie and the Prince Imperial Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 53. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 The Prince Imperial Carte de visite Paul Frecker Born on 16 March 1856, the Prince Imperial appears to be about two or three years old in this photograph. The military uniform that he wears symbolizes the commitment of his father's regime to military strength. The costume is therefore not only 'cute' and amusing, but also part of a campaign of political propaganda. |
| 54. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1858-1859 The Prince Imperial Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 55. |  | Serge Levitsky 1860s (ca) Empress Eugenie of France Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 56. |  | W. & D. Downey n.d. Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808-1873) Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 51) |
| 57. |  | Serge Levitsky 1870 (ca) Tsarevitch Alexander, later Alexander III Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 58. |  | Serge Levitsky 1870 (ca) The Tsarevitch and his wife, Dagmar Carte de visite Paul Frecker |
| 59. |  | Serge Levitsky 1890 (ca) Nicholas II of Russia Carte de visite Paul Frecker |