Queen Victoria
Based on a painting of 1870, this engraved portrait shows the queen seated, wearing a coronet over a widow's cap with a long lace veil, earrings, a necklace with cross, a black dress trimmed with ermine, a sash adorned with the Garter jewel, and a bracelet centered on a miniature of the Prince Consort. The queen had lost her husband a decade before, in 1861.
Artwork Details
- Title: Queen Victoria
- Engraver: Samuel Cousins (British, Exeter 1801–1887 London)
- Artist: After Lowes Cato Dickinson (British, London 1819–1908 London)
- Publisher: Dickinson Brothers (London)
- Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
- Date: 1871
- Medium: Mixed method engraving with mezzotint; working proof
- Dimensions: Plate: 17 13/16 × 24 1/2 in. (45.3 × 62.3 cm)
Sheet: 20 11/16 × 29 1/4 in. (52.5 × 74.3 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.40.101
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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