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Her Majesty the Queen   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Her Majesty the Queen
Description
English: Queen Victoria in mourning, seated facing forward, her hand to her hair and holding a fan, an oval composition. c.1860
Colour lithograph
Depicted people Portrait of: Queen Victoria
Date 1861-1870 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 348 millimetres
Width: 278 millimetres (drawn border of oval)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1902,1011.9194
Notes

This little-known image of the mourning Queen, dressed entirely in black and with a black feather fan, shows her without any jewellery except her wedding ring and a hidden locket at her neckline. A wedding ring as sole ornament was used by the Victorians as a metaphor for bereaved widowhood. Queen Victoria’s decision to adopt mourning for the rest of her life was singular only on account of her age when she was widowed. She was forty-two years old and although she expected to die imminently, she lived for another forty years, perpetually in black. For Victorian women widowed in their ‘fifties or later who did not remarry, it was not uncommon to wear black for the rest of their lives.

The fan is one of a number in the royal collection in which the markings on the feathers are expertly used to create a pattern that shows when the fan is opened
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-1011-9194
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