print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1902,1011.10005
- Description
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Portrait of Prince Albert, full-length, in character of Edward III, wearing a crown, a long tunic embellished in leaf detail, a mantle that attaches around the chest and a girdle which a sword is fastened to; standing with left hand on hilt of sword; state and gold-printed floral border with facsimile of Albert's signature below; illustration to Planché's 'Souvenir of the Bal Costumé' (1843).
Chromolithograph
- Production date
- 1842-1843 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 334 millimetres (border)
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Companion to Queen Victoria as Queen Philippa: 1902,1011.8977
Prince Albert dressed as Edward III at the bal costumé at Buckingham Palace in 1842 - see portrait by Edwin Landseer for another composition of Prince Albert with Queen Victoria in costume (in the Royal Collection: RCIN 404540).
The ball was reported at length in the first number of the Illustrated London News, May 1842 with woodcuts by the leading illustrator of the time, John Gilbert, and commemorated in an illustrated volume by J.R. Planché, Souvenir of the Bal Costumé, published by P. & D. Colnaghi in 1843, from which this illustration, based on drawings by Coke Smith, is taken.
For other coloured prints of same image see 1902,1011.10003 and 1902,1011.10004
Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Souvenir of the Bal Costumé
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,1011.10005