Earliest colour picture of King Edward VII found lying in cupboard
The informal portrait of the king was taken by Lionel de Rothschild, the banker and Conservative MP, in September 1909.
He is shown in Highland costume enjoying the autumn grouse season at Tulchan in Strathspey, about 15 miles from Balmoral. He died eight months after the photograph was taken.
The picture is an example of an autochrome, the first colour photographic method to be commercially viable.
It lay in a collection of 700 autochromes that was wrapped in newspaper and left in a dark cupboard in Exbury House, Hampshire, which Mr de Rothschild bought in 1919.
It was recently discovered by Lionel de Rothschild, his grandson, and now forms part of the Rothschild Archive, which is generating excitement in the photographic world.
The collection is to go on public display at Exbury next month, and also includes one of the earliest known colour pictures of London Zoo, showing onlookers admiring a tiger in 1910...
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He is shown in Highland costume enjoying the autumn grouse season at Tulchan in Strathspey, about 15 miles from Balmoral. He died eight months after the photograph was taken.
The picture is an example of an autochrome, the first colour photographic method to be commercially viable.
It lay in a collection of 700 autochromes that was wrapped in newspaper and left in a dark cupboard in Exbury House, Hampshire, which Mr de Rothschild bought in 1919.
It was recently discovered by Lionel de Rothschild, his grandson, and now forms part of the Rothschild Archive, which is generating excitement in the photographic world.
The collection is to go on public display at Exbury next month, and also includes one of the earliest known colour pictures of London Zoo, showing onlookers admiring a tiger in 1910...