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Sa Majesté Victoria   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: J A Leuchtlein

After: Thomas Sully
Printed by: Thomas Kammerer
Published by: Chrisitan Weiss
Title
Sa Majesté Victoria
Description
English: Portrait of Queen Victoria as a young woman; seen three-quarter length to right in interior, her face turned to front, wearing Diamond Diadem and fur ermine, along with the other robes and jewels of State; standing next to the throne in the House of Lords with crown and sceptre to left; after T. Sully. 1839
Lithograph
Depicted people Portrait of: Queen Victoria
Date 1839
date QS:P571,+1839-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 409 millimetres (image)
Width: 331 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1902,1011.8736
Notes

After tortuous negotiations and five months after Sully’s arrival in Britain, Queen Victoria sat for the portrait in March, 1838: ‘I sat to a Mr Sully, a painter who is come from America to paint me’ (Journal 22 March, 1838). The official nature of the 1837 commission for a full-length portrait from the Society for the Sons of St George, Philadelphia, dictated the state robes and the Diamond Diadem, but Sully chose an unusual pose, with the Queen seen from the back, looking over her shoulder at the viewer as she mounts the steps to the throne. This print reproduces the three-quarter-length version of Sully’s official portrait. Hodgson & Graves, the Queen’s print publishers, had commissioned a half-length from Sully, and this three-quarter view, omitting the steps, was the result, swiftly completed in June, 1838 (and now in the Wallace Collection, 1934,0619.1, P564). For Charles Wagstaff’s mezzotint from same original for Hodgson & Graves, see:1868,0808.1558.

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