Portraiture
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AFTER ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
'The Queen'; Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
1889 copy after an original of 11 May 1854Carbon print | 19.6 x 16.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2906516
Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), seated, facing towards the camera. She turns her head three-quarters to the right and gazes down. She wears a plumed headdress, sash and formal court dress decorated with lace and flowers. 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
19.6 x 16.9 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
- Social customs
- Marriage
- Wedding Ceremonial Costume
- Wedding dresses
- Wedding Ceremonial Costume
- Marriage
- Social customs
- Ethnology
- Places