Queen Victoria and Children

January 19, 1852

William Edward Kilburn

Artist, British, 1818 - 1891

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 7.6 × 8.8 cm (3 × 3 7/16 in.)
    mat: 12 × 14.2 cm (4 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
    overall: 12.8 × 15 × 0.5 cm (5 1/16 × 5 7/8 × 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.145.13


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hypnos/Delas, Paris); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1999; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, center in black ink: [Victoria?] - Vicky - Bertie - Alice, Alfred - and [Louise?] Jan. 19, 1852.


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