To tie in with the opening of the National Library of Scotland's new display ‘Images of Italy, 1480-1900’, Professor Sandra Kemp, Director of The Ruskin Museum and Research Centre at Lancaster University, will give a talk on the extraordinarily…
"I can confirm that copies of the Edinphoto website have been preserved as part of the UK web archive, managed by the British Library and other UK legal deposit libraries.
Graham Hogg
National library of Scotland"
If Ernest Brooks was the 'official' photographer during the tour, then there will be a record of this in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. I'm not sure, however, that such a thing as an official photographer truly existed. But even if he were just fulfilling commissions at various times, the chances are that records will exist or there will be mention of it somewhere in the archives. You could also investigate what we have in the photograph collection at Windsor. Please contact me if you would like to follow this up, and I can help with appropriate names and emails, etc.
sophie.gordon@royalcollection.org.uk
Best wishes,
Sophie
(Senior Curator of Photographs, The Royal Collection)
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Dear Graham,
If Ernest Brooks was the 'official' photographer during the tour, then there will be a record of this in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. I'm not sure, however, that such a thing as an official photographer truly existed. But even if he were just fulfilling commissions at various times, the chances are that records will exist or there will be mention of it somewhere in the archives. You could also investigate what we have in the photograph collection at Windsor. Please contact me if you would like to follow this up, and I can help with appropriate names and emails, etc.
sophie.gordon@royalcollection.org.uk
Best wishes,
Sophie
(Senior Curator of Photographs, The Royal Collection)