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)
Young Inuit girls
Jun 1854Jul 1854Albumen print | 16.0 x 20.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2510470
Photograph of a group portrait in three-quarters length consisting of seven Inuit girls, who are standing and facing the viewer. The majority wear their hair up in a tightly wound bun on top of their heads.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Inuit16.0 x 20.2 cm (image)
[Historic Title] Esquimaux girls, Greenland [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
- Girls
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
