print
- Museum number
- 1902,1011.8945
- Title
- Object: 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.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1841 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 274 millimetres
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Width: 189 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Same plate with publication detail: 1859,0709.1504, 1902,1011.8943
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
- 1902,1011.8945
