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Victoria, Duchess of Kent

Also known as: Victoria, Duchess of Kent; primary name: Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Victoria Mary Louise of; other name: (Duchess of) Kent; other name: Victoria
Details: individual; royal/imperial; German; British; Female
Life dates: 1786-1861
Biography: Daughter of Francis Frederick Antony, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Widow of Prince Emich Karl of Leiningen. Married in 1818 Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (q.v.). Mother of Queen Victoria (q.v.).
Bibliography: DNB

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cameo

Museum number: 1991,1204.1 |
Producer name: BIOG75629 Made by:John Nicholson |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Made in:England

cream-jug

Museum number: 1928,0116.10.CR |
Producer name: BIOG81675 Factory of:Worcester Porcelain Factory |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Factory in:Worcester

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.93 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834-1840

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.32 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing

Museum number: 1860,0714.53 |
Producer name: BIOG51091 Drawn by:Sir David Wilkie |
Production date: 1785-1841

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.124 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.125 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.94 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834-1840

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.12 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.6 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.126 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.63 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.19 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.54 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.132 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.55 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.16 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; album

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.70 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.493 |
Producer name: Drawn by:John Doyle (HB)After:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1841

drawing; album; admission-ticket; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1888,0116.22.1 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 Drawn by:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1838-1839

medal

Museum number: M.6063 |
Producer name: BIOG110832 Designed by:Conrad Heinrich Küchler |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1902,1011.8399 |
Producer name: BIOG48470 After:Mary Thornycroft |
Production date: 1848

print; satirical print

Title: The matrimonial mania - or - poor Jonny ridden to death. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8382 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1818

print; satirical print

Title: Dutiful children on a visit to their father- ! A scene on the Windsor Road. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8418 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:J Sidebotham |
Production date: 1819

print; satirical print

Title: Turtle doves in the bird cage walk |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9691 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1818

print; satirical print

Title: The matrimonial mania - or - poor Jonny ridden to death. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1818

print

Title: The Queen's visit to the City of London |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8676 |
Producer name: Printed by:James TurnerPublished by:William Strange |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8388 |
Producer name: BIOG174982 Published by:P Gally |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.8662 |
Producer name: After:William DrummondPublished by:Gabriel Shire Tregear |
Production date: 1837-1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8529 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward FindenAfter:Richard Westall |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Lion Dog from Malta, the Last of his Tribe |
Museum number: 1870,0813.995 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas LandseerAfter:Edwin Landseer |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8396 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Henry LynchAfter:John Lucas |
Production date: 1843 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8661 |
Producer name: Print made by:T C WilsonPrinted by:Alvey |
Production date: 1830-1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8648 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alfred Robert FreebairnAfter:Henry Weigall |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1932,0830.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company LtdAfter:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1895-1901 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her most Gracious Majesty the Queen |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8624 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick Christian LewisAfter:Richard James Lane |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1853,1112.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas WoolnothAfter:Anthony Stewart |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Victoria |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1919 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Émile DesmaisonsPublished by:A H Baily & Co |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical; book-illustration

Title: The hen-peck'd monach. Figaro in London |
Museum number: 1870,1008.1491.1-2 |
Producer name: Print made by:H BurrowsPrint made by:Welch |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, K.G. |
Museum number: 1841,1113.159 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick Christian LewisAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1820 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Her Majesty in 1821, with her mother the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8489 |
Producer name: BIOG18968 After:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1892 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Betrothing interrupted by the Ghost of Sell-hiss!!-hiss!! |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.201 |
Producer name: BIOG45987 Print made by:Robert Seymour |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Majesty Queen Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8591 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Eden WagstaffAfter:Alfred Edward Chalon |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Kentish Lady, that did not go to the coronation |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9417 |
Producer name: BIOG45987 Print made by:Robert Seymour |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Christening of the Princess Royal |
Museum number: 1854,1111.88 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Thomas RyallAfter:Charles Robert Leslie |
Production date: 1849 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8898 |
Producer name: BIOG30969 After:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1887-1897 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon Political Sketches |
Museum number: 1868,0808.11999 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Doyle (HB)Printed by:General Lithographic Establishment |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Queen's visit to the City |
Museum number: 1858,0417.31 |
Producer name: BIOG132152 Published by:M Elliot |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The princess Alexandrina-Victoria. |
Museum number: 1865,0114.625 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas WoolnothAfter:Anthony Stewart |
Production date: 1829-1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A scene in the New Farce called the Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumtive |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1819 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8389 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Alfred Edward Chalon |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8394.a |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Émile DesmaisonsPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8393 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick BaconAfter:Sir William Charles Ross |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8392 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Richard Rothwell |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8550 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Sir George Hayter |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8394 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick BaconAfter:Sir William Charles Ross |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A scene in the New Farce called the Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumtive |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8439 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1819 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Her Royal Highness Victoria-Mary-Louisa, Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1866,1013.739 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CochranAfter:Henry Collen |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; envelope; satirical print

Museum number: 1944,1013.13 |
Producer name: BIOG119254 Published by:William Spooner |
Production date: 1840s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.30.85 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CochranAfter:Miss Corbeaux |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical; book-illustration

Title: The hen-peck'd monach. |
Museum number: 1873,0712.1282 |
Producer name: Print made by:H BurrowsAfter:Robert Seymour |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A dance round the May pole interrupted by a passin Weighed in the balance and found wanting. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12318 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert SeymourPrinted by:A Ducôte |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Augusta |
Museum number: 1870,1008.1036 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Émile DesmaisonsPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1841 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4440 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas WoolnothAfter:Henry Collen |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Royal intimacy |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9003 |
Producer name: Print made by:GoupilPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1844-1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen |
Museum number: 1859,0709.1503 |
Producer name: Print made by:Benjamin Phelps GibbonAfter:William Fowler |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: German Lady |
Museum number: 1901,0611.35 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IPrint made by:William Reynolds |
Production date: 1789-1835

print

Title: Her Highness the Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1865,0114.626 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WardAfter:William Fowler |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:Ramsgate

print

Title: Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8589 |
Producer name: BIOG133300 Print made by:Joseph Bouvier |
Production date: 1837-1840

print

Title: Victoria Dutchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1928,0211.43 |
Producer name: After:George KoberweinPrint made by:Francis Holl

print

Title: At the Seaside / At Malvern |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8536 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1887-1897

print

Title: HRH the Duchess of Kent &c &c &c |
Museum number: 1897,1117.134 |
Producer name: After:George DawePrint made by:Thomas Woolnoth |
Production date: 1818-1820

print

Museum number: 1915,0508.82 |
Producer name: BIOG51401 After:Franz Xaver Winterhalter |
Production date: late 19thC

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.8483 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1837-1861

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1934,0217.134 |
Producer name: After:Stephen Catterson SmithPrint made by:Richard James Lane |
Production date: 1829

print

Title: The Princess Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8495 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LanePrinted by:Charles Joseph Hullmandel |
Production date: 1829-1830

print

Museum number: 1852,1009.553 |
Producer name: After:Stephen Catterson SmithPrint made by:Richard James Lane |
Production date: 1820-1830

print

Title: Her Majesty as she appeared on her first visit to Covent Garden Theatre |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8608 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DrummondPrinted by:Lefevre & Kohler |
Production date: 1837

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.8520 |
Producer name: After:Nicholas CulpeperAfter:William Fowler |
Production date: 1887-1897

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1912,1012.77 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Alfred Edward Chalon |
Production date: 1838

print

Title: Dash |
Museum number: 1917,1208.2854 |
Producer name: Print made by:Lowes Cato DickinsonAfter:Edwin Landseer |
Production date: 1836

print; music sheet/cover

Title: Victoria Our Bonny English Rose |
Museum number: 1922,0710.211 |
Producer name: Printed by:J GrafPublished by:Leoni Lee |
Production date: 1830-1837

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.8788 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1838

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Princess Victoria and her mother |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8488 |
Producer name: After:Sir William BeecheyPrinted by:Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor |
Production date: 1887 |
Production place: Printed in:Glasgow

print

Museum number: 1982,U.3115 |
Producer name: BIOG18968 After:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1806

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1902,1011.8400-8401 |
Producer name: BIOG48470 After:Mary Thornycroft |
Production date: 1861

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Princess Victoria hears of her accession to the Throne. 1837. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8665 |
Producer name: BIOG50744 After:Henry Tanworth Wells |
Production date: 1887-1897

print

Title: His Royal Highness / Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg Gotha. |
Museum number: 1895,0617.424 |
Producer name: Print made by:James PosselwhiteAfter:George Howard |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Windsor

print

Title: Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria |
Museum number: 1902,1011.9025 |
Producer name: Print made by:James PosselwhiteAfter:Henry Dawe |
Production date: 1846 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Majesty the Queen |
Museum number: 1853,0112.121 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Alfred Edward Chalon |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Marriage of Her Majesty with Prince Albert |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8906 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1840

print

Title: Princess Victoria Daughter of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1891,0414.363 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles TurnerAfter:William Fowler |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8395 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: early 19thC

print

Title: German Lady |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2413 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IPrint made by:William Reynolds |
Production date: 1789-1835 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

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