File:Her Majesty the Queen (BM 1902,1011.9194 1).jpg
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[edit]Her Majesty the Queen ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Her Majesty the Queen |
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Description |
English: Queen Victoria in mourning, seated facing forward, her hand to her hair and holding a fan, an oval composition. c.1860
Colour lithograph |
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Depicted people | Portrait of: Queen Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1861-1870 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1902,1011.9194 |
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Notes |
This little-known image of the mourning Queen, dressed entirely in black and with a black feather fan, shows her without any jewellery except her wedding ring and a hidden locket at her neckline. A wedding ring as sole ornament was used by the Victorians as a metaphor for bereaved widowhood. Queen Victoria’s decision to adopt mourning for the rest of her life was singular only on account of her age when she was widowed. She was forty-two years old and although she expected to die imminently, she lived for another forty years, perpetually in black. For Victorian women widowed in their ‘fifties or later who did not remarry, it was not uncommon to wear black for the rest of their lives. The fan is one of a number in the royal collection in which the markings on the feathers are expertly used to create a pattern that shows when the fan is opened |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-1011-9194 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Image width | 3,659 px |
Image height | 5,019 px |
Color space | sRGB |
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Date and time of digitizing | 10:02, 2 March 2009 |
File change date and time | 10:04, 2 March 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:04, 2 March 2009 |