The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Dejatch Alamayou, 1868
albumen silver photograph
26.0 x 31.1cm
Victorian photographs, Julia Margaret Cameron: Annals of My Glass House.
The Wilson Centre for Photography
00:6691
Prince Dejatch Alamayou, was the son and heir to Emperor Theodore of
Abyssinia. His father died during the Abyssinian war and the young Prince
came under the protection of Queen Victoria. The orphaned boy was seven years
old when this photograph was taken. He was visiting Queen Victoria at Osborne
House on the Isle of Wight.
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