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AFTER SIR WILLIAM ROSS (1794-1860)

Victoria, Princess Royal, and Albert, Prince of Wales

dated 1842

Engraving with stipple | 22.4 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 2506487

An engraving from an album of portraits containing prints and photographs: Victoria, Princess Royal, and Albert, Prince of Wales as infants; head and shoulders; the Princess wearing a string of pearls and the Prince wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Inscribed and dated on the mount below.

  • Creator(s)

    After Sir William Ross (1794-1860) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
    King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)

  • 22.4 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper)

  • From an album compiled by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • engravings
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