Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)
Inuit boys
1854Albumen print | 15.4 x 13.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2510477
Hand-coloured photograph of seven Inuit boys standing, facing the viewer. The two boys on the front stand with their hands in their pockets. This is an incomplete, cropped version of the original picture that was spoilt by shade cast over the boys standing on the left.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Inuit15.4 x 13.1 cm (image)
[Historic Title] Esquimaux Boys [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin, 1854].
- Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854
Subject(s)
- Places
- Polar regions
- Arctic territories
- Arctic regions
- Greenland [Denmark]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- People
- Boys
- Children
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
