print
- Museum number
- 1951,0411.4.11
- Title
- Object: Queen Victoria as she appeared at the Review
- Description
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Portrait vignette, full length, seated on horseback facing left; Queen Victoria in riding costume, and top hat with veil, wearing Star of the Order of the Garter; Windsor Castle in the background to the left.
Etching, stipple, hand-coloured
- Production date
- 1838-1850 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres (widest dimensions)
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Width: 162 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See similar of Prince Albert: 1951,0411.4.12
Possibly based on Joseph Bouvier’s similar image of Queen Victoria reviewing her troops for the first time in Windsor Great Park on 28 September, 1827 (see: National Portrait Gallery, NPG D8150), See also 1870,0514.1869
Given the companion portrait of Prince Albert, this print may have been issued at the time of the Review of the Troops at Windsor on 1 November, 1839. The Queen was just betrothed to Prince Albert although the marriage was not yet announced, and he was present for the first time, riding by her side. She was dressed as customary in her Windsor uniform jacket with a gold-trimmed military cap or shako with the ribbon and star of the order of the Garter, and mounted on her white horse “Leopold”. Both the Queen’s Journal entry (www.queenvictoriasjournals.org, vol. 8, p. 83) and Sarah, Lady Lyttelton’s letter to a niece (The Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton, London, 1912, p. 292) describe her costume and stress the inclement weather, with rain throughout the whole afternoon.
Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,0411.4.11
