Prince Joinville and Duc d'Aumale at Great Eastern Dockyard
Artist
Robert Howlett
(English, 1831 - 1858)
DateDecember 9, 1857
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 inches (25.56 × 19.69 cm)
Mount (1): 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 inches (25.56 × 19.69 cm)
Mount (2): 17 15/16 × 13 3/8 inches (45.56 × 33.97 cm)
Mount (1): 10 1/16 × 7 3/4 inches (25.56 × 19.69 cm)
Mount (2): 17 15/16 × 13 3/8 inches (45.56 × 33.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.44.7
Signednone
InscribedOn image recto, lower left, in negative: “Dec 9 57"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of two men seated wearing top hats and long jackets. The bearded man on the left has an umbrella leaned against his leg. The mustachioed man on the right holds a cane and looks off to his left. They both appear to wear a dark glove on their left hand.Gallery LabelIn 1857, huge crowds gathered in London to witness the first movement of SS Leviathan, the largest ship of its time. After the first phase of construction on the banks of the Thames River, the massive ship (later re-named the Great Eastern) was plagued with setbacks and could not be moved until much later.
Pictured here are two notable spectators, François d’Orléans, Prince of Joinville (left), and Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale (right). Sons of
the deposed King Louis Philippe, they were expelled from France in 1848 and, much like the Leviathan, were now very much stuck.
Purchased from Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, England by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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