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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 123

Queen Victoria

Portrait
1850 - 1862 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait of Queen Victoria woven in black and white silk from engravings by F. Bacon, 1841, after a painting by William Charles Ross.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleQueen Victoria (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Woven silk
Brief description
Portrait of Queen Victoria woven in black and white silk from engravings by F. Bacon, after a painting by William Charles Ross.
Physical description
Portrait of Queen Victoria woven in black and white silk from engravings by F. Bacon, 1841, after a painting by William Charles Ross.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.6cm
  • Width: 13.1cm
Subject depicted
Associated object
Bibliographic references
  • Baker, Malcolm, and Brenda Richardson (eds.), A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A Publications, 1999.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nation 1851. London : Spicer Bros., 1851
  • Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, p. 198
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection
Accession number
AP.119-1862

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Record createdNovember 27, 2003
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