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The Royal Family

Print
ca. 1850-60 (made)
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.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Copies and Facsimilies
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Print
TitleThe 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 createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
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