Royal shooting party including King Edward VII
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Royal shooting party including King Edward VII
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1890s
16 7/8 in. x 22 1/2 in. (430 mm x 570 mm)
Photographs Collection
NPG x126074
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6584 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- John Bulteel (1856-1920). Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Stanley Clarke, Colonel and equerry. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- King Edward VII (1841-1910), Reigned 1901-10. Sitter associated with 505 portraits. Identify
- Lord John Hay (1827-1916), Admiral. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1832-1917), Courtier. Sitter associated with 7 portraits. Identify
- Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1865-1944), Soldier; Polo player. Sitter associated with 2 portraits. Identify
- Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (1830-1914), Landowner and courtier. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Cornwall (in front of Huntsman's Cottage, Mount Edgcumbe Estate)
Events of 1890back to top
Current affairs
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.
Art and science
William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .
International
Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.
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Tonny Steenhagen
04 June 2022, 09:18
This photo was taken in front of Huntsman's Cottage (now the much altered Hooe Lake Cottage), halfway between Cawsand and Picklecombe. Huntsman's Cottage was part of the Mount Edgcumbe Estate.
Jonathan Burt
15 June 2016, 11:54
This photo is I think from Gunton Park, with Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield next to the King
Tonny Steenhagen
04 June 2022, 11:01
November 1887, when the Prince of Wales visited the Westcountry