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Handkerchief

1838 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Silk handkerchief depicting the coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey. It is plate printed in black with added purple, red, blue, yellow, green and buff.

There is an inscription on white ground with crowns, large at the corners and smaller at the sides, above a spray of rose, thistle and clover or a single bloom, printed in black. Around the outer edges of the crowns there is a deep blue and black border with symbolic flowers, crowns reserved in white, and a repeat inscription.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Block printed silk
Brief description
Silk handkerchief, Coronation of Queen Victoria, made in England, 1838
Physical description
Silk handkerchief depicting the coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey. It is plate printed in black with added purple, red, blue, yellow, green and buff.

There is an inscription on white ground with crowns, large at the corners and smaller at the sides, above a spray of rose, thistle and clover or a single bloom, printed in black. Around the outer edges of the crowns there is a deep blue and black border with symbolic flowers, crowns reserved in white, and a repeat inscription.
Dimensions
  • Height: 83.3cm
  • Width: 85.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'LONG LIVE VICTORIA QUEEN OF ENGLAND' (Repeated around outside edge of handkerchief)
  • 'CORONATION OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA JUNE 1838' (Caption to central image)
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Given by Miss B. Hinton
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.128-1971

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Record createdJuly 31, 2008
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