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QUEEN VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901)

Princess Victoria

dated Feb 1846

Lithograph | 16.0 x 21.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 2506500

A lithograph from an album of portraits containing prints and photographs: Victoria, Princess Royal, full length, standing in profile to the right and holding a doll in her right hand; with the monogram of the queen, and dated, lower left.

  • Creator(s)

    Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (artist)

    Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (lithographer)

    Subject(s)

    Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)

  • 16.0 x 21.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • From an album compiled by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • lithographs
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