print
- Museum number
- 1902,1011.8943
- Title
- Object: Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria
- Description
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Portrait of Queen Victoria after W.C.Ross; seated three-quarter length on her throne, looking forward, wearing a silk and lace dress and garter sash with a heart locket and miniature of Prince Albert on her wrist, her hair looped back; proof. 1841
Engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 359 millimetres
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Width: 268 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the prototype for this portrait, a large-scale miniature in a private collection by Sir William Ross in watercolour on ivory, dating to around 1840, see Vanessa Remington, "Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen", London, 2010, Fig. 17, p. 20. Two miniatures, exhibiting slight differences in the tilt of the head, by William Essex of the Queen’s head and shoulders only, are in the Royal Collection: see Remington, cat. 339 and 340
Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,1011.8943