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Queen Victoria

Sitter Queen Victoria British
1899
Not on view
In this portrait, the elderly queen wears a black dress, holds a walking stick, and is accompanied by a Scottish terrier. The print reproduces Nicholson's hand-colored woodcut, first published in the "New Review" in 1897 to celebrate Victoria's diamond jubilee--her sixtieth year of reign. When the latter periodical went out of business, William Heinemann acquired a five Nicholson designs, and reissued them with five additions, as "Twelve Portraits" (1899). The set was printed using transfer lithography, and priced at one guinea, and simultaneously offered in a de-luxe edition printed from the original woodblocks, that sold for £21.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Queen Victoria
  • Series/Portfolio: Twelve Portraits
  • Artist: William Nicholson (British, Newark-on-Trent 1872–1949 Berkshire)
  • Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
  • Publisher: William Heinemann
  • Date: 1899
  • Medium: Color lithograph
  • Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/16 x 11 9/16 in. (25.5 x 29.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
  • Object Number: 27.7(30)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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