The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
The whole family once: Victoria, Albert and all nine children, four years before Albert's death.
- Archive caption
- The Royal Family on the terrace at Osborne House
- Creator
- Caldesi & Montecchi
- Date
- 1857-05
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons (Google Art Project scan)
- Rights
- 1857 photograph; studio principals died 19th c.; US PD via pre-1930 publication · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Caldesi & Montecchi. “The Royal Family on the terrace at Osborne House.” 1857-05. Wikimedia Commons (Google Art Project scan). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caldesi_%26_Montecchi_-_The_Royal_Family,_Osborne_1857_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 712, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/3lhPAVl5b0Nd2Jr_/712/face/888
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