Portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia

Title

Portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia

Description

Around the same time as photography’s discovery, George Baxter developed a process of colour printing known as chromolithography, which he patented in 1835. The portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia seen here employ that process in order to create richly-coloured portraits that commemorate the powerful and the wealthy. In comparison to daguerreotypes of middle-class patrons like that of Mrs Morrow, these could be, and were intended to be, circulated widely in order to promote a public identity. 

View Baxter's Cabinet of Paintings, another example of the chromolithographic process, as well as the Cameron Collection of George Baxter Prints, housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.

People

George Baxter (creator)

Date

1855
21.0 x 16.5 cm
NE 1860 B2 A7 P75 1858 (Princess Royal, Princess of Prussia)
NE 1860 B2 A7 V58 1855 (Vive L'Empereur!)

Files

Princess Royal recto 72dpi.jpg
Princess Royal recto closeup 300dpi.jpg
Empereur recto 72dpi.jpg

Citation

George Baxter (creator), “Portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia,” Bruce Peel Special Collections Library Online Exhibits, accessed November 22, 2024, https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/items/show/3032.

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