Accession number
PML 147619
Creator
Baxter, George, 1804-1867, printmaker.
Published
[London] : [George Baxter], [approximately 1853]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from Courtney Lewis.
Possibly after a portrait of Queen Victoria by John Partridge from 1842 (in the Royal Collection: RCIN 403022, Millar, cat. 532), reworked with new hairstyle to reflect a more mature age, in 1853. See British Museum online catalog, item number 1902,1011.8968.
Library's copy is on an unmarked mount lacking the Baxter embossed stamp.
Possibly after a portrait of Queen Victoria by John Partridge from 1842 (in the Royal Collection: RCIN 403022, Millar, cat. 532), reworked with new hairstyle to reflect a more mature age, in 1853. See British Museum online catalog, item number 1902,1011.8968.
Library's copy is on an unmarked mount lacking the Baxter embossed stamp.
Description
1 print : Baxter process ; sheet: 111 x 78 mm; mount: 215 x 160 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait of Queen Victoria, half length, with her hand resting on a letter on a table beside a red dispatch-box; she holds a lace-trimmed handkerchief and fan and wears the State Diadem, a blue sash, and Star of the Garter, with the garter itself around her left arm.
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