Photograph Album from Baron James de Rothschild

Photograph album given to Queen Victoria and Price Albert by Baron James de Rothschild

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert received this magnificent photograph album as a souvenir of their visit to France in 1855. One of a limited edition of 25 produced at the time, the majority of the photographs that it contains were taken by the great French photographer Edouard-Denis Baldus. They record landmarks on the route of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, by which the royal party travelled between Boulogne and Paris. The album was a gift from Baron James de Rothschild, President of the Railway Corporation.