page_title: Prince Albert v Strange
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Albert v Strange / Summary
caption_attribution_description: English: An etching showing the infant Victoria, Princess Royal, sitting in her nurse's lap and being fed with a bottle. After RCIN 980024.d. She is shown facing left in profile and is wearing a frilled bonnet. Inscribed below: V. Inscribed lower left: 21/8 – 1841 -
context_page_description: Prince Albert v Strange was a court decision made by the High Court of Chancery in 1849, and began the development of confidence law in England. The court awarded Prince Albert an injunction, restraining Strange from publishing a catalogue describing Prince Albert’s etchings. Lord Cottenham LC noted that "this case by no means depends solely upon the question of property; for a breach of trust, confidence, or contract, would of itself entitle the plaintiff to an injunction".
context_section_description: Both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert created a number of etchings in the 1840s as a hobby. The copper plates for these were entrusted to a printer in Windsor called John Brown to create copies that the couple showed to friends or gave away. The plates and the good copies were returned by Brown.  However, a number of extra copies had been run off by an employee of Brown's, called Middleton.  Middleton sold a set of 63 different prints for the sum of £5  to Jasper Tomsett Judge, a writer who in 1848 had published a book Sketches of Her Majesty's Household, investigating the Queen's finances, expenditures, and patronage.  Judge proposed to make a public exhibition of the etchings, and drew up a catalogue for it, 50 copies of which were printed by his publisher, William Strange; with two copies sent to Windsor Castle, for the sight of the Queen and the Prince.
  Prince Albert filed suit for the surrender of the etchings, for the prohibition of the exhibition, and for prevention of publication of the etchings. His plea was granted.
caption: An etching by Queen Victoria of Princess Vicky being fed by her nurse
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