Queen Victoria and Edward VII
James H. Pleasants American
Sitter Queen Victoria British
Sitter Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland British
Not on view
Two overlapped silhouettes represent Queen Victoria standing behind her son Edward VII, both figures elderly and portly. Edward did not come to the throne until he was sixty, then reigned for just nine years. His mother, by contrast, acceded in 1837, when she was ninteen and reigned until 1901.
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