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Queen Victoria

Portrait
1850 - 1862 (made)
Artist/Maker
Barrallon & Brossard (manufacturer)
Unknown (maker)
Bacon, Frederick (engraver)
Ross, William Charles (Sir) (painter)
Place of origin
Saint Etienne (made)

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
Textiles
Great Exhibition
Portraits
Royalty
Object type
Portrait
TitleQueen Victoria (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Woven silk
Silk (Textile)
Weaving
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
Victoria (Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India)
Associated object
AP.120-1862
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
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
AP.119-1862

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Record createdNovember 27, 2003
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86336/queen-victoria-portrait-unknown/
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