Portraiture
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AFTER ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
'The Queen'; Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
1889 copy of an original of 11 May 1854Carbon print | 19.4 x 16.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2906515
Photograph of a full length portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), standing, facing slightly towards the left. She turns her head to gaze behind her. Queen Victoria wears a formal court dress decorated with flowers and lace. She rests her right hand on a pedestal upon which a posie of flowers are placed. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.
Creator(s)
View person pageAfter Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)
The Queen/Do./ Do.
Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889
19.4 x 16.1 cm (image)
28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)
The Queen, Buckingham Palace, May 11th 1854 (after a drawingroom) [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]
- Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1854
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster
- Buckingham Palace
- City of Westminster
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Costume & National dress
- Court Dress
- Court Dress of Great Britain
- Court Dress
- Costume & National dress
- Ethnology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Architectural design
- Architectural decoration & motifs
- Pedestals
- Architectural decoration & motifs
- Architectural design
- Architecture
- Places