Queen Victoria trade card (W500)
ca. 1880–1900
Medium
Commercial lithograph after an engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/4 × 1 7/16 in. (7 × 3.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Accession Number
63.350.536.500.590
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Queen Victoria · 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...