File:Her Most Gracious Majesty...Prince Albert..as they appeared... to the theatre Royal Drury Lane (BM 1902,1011.8893).jpg
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[edit]Her Most Gracious Majesty...Prince Albert..as they appeared... to the theatre Royal Drury Lane
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Print made by: James Henry Lynch
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Her Most Gracious Majesty...Prince Albert..as they appeared... to the theatre Royal Drury Lane |
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English: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert seated in theatre box; five members of suit behind; the Prince in uniform, the Queen holding fan; after G. Howard. 1840
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| Depicted people | Portrait of: Queen Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1840 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1902,1011.8893 |
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The event took place on Wednesday 26 February, 1840. A large retinue of members of the royal family and Household in “full dress” (full evening dress) arrived at the theatre in nine carriages (The Times, Court Circular, 27 February, 1840). The entertainment consisted of an opera, “The Sylph”, followed by a two-act farce, “Raising the Wind”, which the Queen found most amusing. Before the performance the Queen and Prince came to the front of the box; afterwards “God Save the Queen” (with an added verse mentioning the Prince) and “Rule Britannia” were sung to tremendous cheering (Journal, 26 February, 1840, vol. 9 pp. 115–7). Coincidently, on 24 March, 1840, the day before this image was published the Queen had made one of her frequent visits to Covent Garden for a Command Performance of a comedy in five acts, “The Wonders”, with Charles Kemble. The Queen found it “clever and amusing” but “rather coarse” (Journal, 24 March, 1840, vol. 9, p. 160). Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-1011-8893 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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