The Royal Family

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Artist/Maker	Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (artist) Noël, Alphonse Léon (lithographer)
Place of origin	England (made)

A print after painting by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, of the British Royal Family in 1846, showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Prince Edward, Prince Alfred, Princess Victoria, Princess Alice, Princess Helena.

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Categories	Prints Copies and Facsimilies Portraits Royalty
Object type	Print
Title	The Royal Family (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph coloured by hand Lithography
Brief description	Print by Alphonse Léon Noël after a painting by Franz Xavier Winterhalter entitled 'The Royal Family', lithograph coloured by hand, France, 1850-60
Physical description	A print after painting by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, of the British Royal Family in 1846, showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Prince Edward, Prince Alfred, Princess Victoria, Princess Alice, Princess Helena.
Dimensions	Height: 64.3cm Width: 82.2cm Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions	'Lithographie par LEON NOEL en [ ].' (Lettered)
Production	The painting, dated 1846, on which this print is based, is in the Royal Collection. This print has been laid onto cotton or linen which has then been nailed to a strainer (a rigid wooden rectangle without corner wedges). Strainers were used before and after the invention of stretchers, with corner wedges to allow adjustments in size, in the period 1751-72. The treatment this print has received shows that it was used as a decorative object rather than being kept in a portfolio.
Subjects depicted	Queen Victoria Prince Albert Edward VII Prince Alfred Princess Victoria Princess Alice Helena Augusta Victoria Princess
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990 Julius Bryant, ed. Art and Design for All. The Victoria and Albert Museum London: V&A Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9781851776665.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.3018-1990

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Record created	February 23, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O191959/the-royal-family-print-winterhalter-franz-xaver/

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