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Corontation of Queen Victoria

Photograph
1841-5 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Hogg, Jabez (photographer)
Moon, Francis Graham (Sir) (printer)
Leslie, Charles Robert (R.A.) (painter)
Place of origin
Westminster

Daguerreotype of an artwork of Queen Victoria receiving the sacrament at her coronation on 28 June 1838. The daguerreotype is of a print, published by Alderman Moon in 1841, made after the painting by Charles Robert Leslie in 1838-39 for Queen Victoria.
The daguerreotype is in a cream card mount and glazed. The verso of the object has several layers of paper stuck down to secure the plate in the mount. The mount and glazing are held together with a black tape edging.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Pageants and Ceremonies
Royalty
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
RPS Digitisation Project
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • Corontation of Queen Victoria (generic title)
  • Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation, 28 June 1838 (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
Framed daguerreotype
Copper
Glass
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber Product)
Daguerreotype
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by Jabez Hogg after a print published by Alderman Moon of a painting by Charles Robert Leslie, Coronation of Queen Victoria, daguerreotype, 1841-5.
Physical description
Daguerreotype of an artwork of Queen Victoria receiving the sacrament at her coronation on 28 June 1838. The daguerreotype is of a print, published by Alderman Moon in 1841, made after the painting by Charles Robert Leslie in 1838-39 for Queen Victoria.
The daguerreotype is in a cream card mount and glazed. The verso of the object has several layers of paper stuck down to secure the plate in the mount. The mount and glazing are held together with a black tape edging.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 54mm
  • Image width: 93mm
  • Frame height: 120mm
  • Frame width: 144mm
  • Frame depth: 4mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Ceremony of laying on of hands / by the archbishop of Canterbury before / Coronation of Queen Victoria / ---- / copied by J Hogg from the / large print published by / Alderman Moon 1841 (Handwritten on verso, on the original blue paper backing.)
  • (Various RPS numbers handwritten on verso in black ink and pencil. The date '1841' repeated in this later hand. Green sticker with '11' on verso.)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Production
This daguerreotype was made from a print, published by Alderman Moon, of a painting made by Charles Robert Leslie.
Associated objects
Other numbers
  • XRG1029 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 2003-5001/2/28145 - Science Museum Group accession number
  • 13017 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
  • C7/D3 - RPS identifier - misc.
  • Cat no. 00D11 - RPS identifier - misc.
  • 16 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.480-2017

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Record createdJune 19, 2017
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1398611/corontation-of-queen-victoria-photograph-hogg-jabez/
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