• Title
  HRH Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence, as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, 1881 / photographer Freeman & Co., Sydney
• Creator
  Freeman & Co. Ltd
• Call number
  P1/2045
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1881
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  901952
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - 19.1 x 10.6 cm - gelatin silver, on cardboard
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  ... the royal brothers were sent as naval cadets on a three-year world tour aboard HMS Bacchante. Albert Victor was rated midshipman on his sixteenth birthday. They toured the British Empire, accompanied by Dalton, visiting the Americas, the Falkland Islands, South Africa, Australia, Fiji, the Far East, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, the Holy Land and Greece. They acquired tattoos in Japan. By the time they returned to the UK, Albert Victor was eighteen.
  
  Reference:
  Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/ (accessed August 11, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Albert Victor Christian Edward, August 2010
  Digital order no:a4447045
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Freeman & Co, photographers, identified by comparison with P1/2036, where Mr and Mrs Henry Moore are posed with the same garden settee
• Name
  Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 1864-1892
  Great Britain. Royal Navy
  
• Subject
  Royal visitors--New South Wales.
  Adult Males
  boys
  
• Topic
  portraits
  royal family (Great Britain)
  military uniforms
  naval officers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3292529

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