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The Royal Album
Bound volume containing photographic portraits of H.R.H. Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (1841-1910) and ten of his gentlemen attendants. Made by Jeremiah Gurney and Son at the Revere House, Boston, October 19th, 1860. Each photograph is mounted, one per page, on heavy, gold-edged board with a printed border and facsimile signature below. Several of the portraits are heavily retouched in the negative. This album was presented to Lord Lyons, one of the Prince's attendants (see 1976.0197.0002). A design representing the insignia of the Prince of Wales with the motto, in German "Ich dien" ("I serve") is embossed on both the front and back weighted covers. Front cover is detached. Album is in overall good condition with some fading and yellowing of the prints.
1. Edward Albert, Prince of Wales
2. Lyons (Lord Lyons) Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
3. Newcastle (Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme), Secretary of State for the Colonies
4. St. Germans (Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans), Lord Chamberlain
5. Robert Bruce (Major-General Hon. Robert Bruce), Governor to H.R.H.
6. Henry W. Acland (Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet), Physician to H.R.H.
7. Teesdale (Major-General Sir Christopher Charles Teesdale), Equerry in Waiting
8. G.N. Grey (Capt. Grey / Gray), Equerry in Waiting
9. Gardner D. Engleheart (Sir John Gardner Dillman Engleheart), Secretary to the Duke of Newcastle
10. Charles G. C. Eliot (Col. Hon. Charles George Cornwallis Eliot).
11. Hinchingbrook (Lord Hinchingbrooke, Edward Montagu, Eighth Earl of Sandwich)
Please note: The cataloger numbered the album pages beginning with the front flyleaf; database records have been created for only those pages with photographs adhered to them.
