Marriage of Queen Victoria, February 10, 1840
Medium
Etching, engraving and stipple
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed within plate): 13 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (34.3 × 28.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mary Sheldon Lyon, 1947
Accession Number
47.95.48
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Queen Victoria|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Henry Graves & Company|Day & Co., London|Sir George Hayter|Charles Eden Wagstaff · 1819–1901
Queen Victoria (1819–1901), the long-reigning British monarch, was also a dedicated and prolific artist whose creative output spanned more than six decades. Born Alexandrina Victoria, she received her first formal drawing lesson at the age of eight from the artist Richard Westall and continued her training under leading figures of the day, including Edward Lear. She later studied etching alongside...