Views of the Interior and Exterior of Windsor Castle
Title page: Royal Entrance to the Quadrangle (Queen and Prince Albert on horseback ride out through the arch and are greeted by subjects).
Dedication to Queen Victoria and List of Subjects.
Plate 2: Lower Ward (Castle and Terrace Garden, with St. George's Chapel at left, a choir and congregants exiting from two doorways, a corps of guards at right, and people strolling).
Plate 3: Grand Staircase (royal visitors ascending with beefeaters on duty).
Plate 4: The Guard Chamber (beefeaters on duty and visitors at the far end).
Plate 5: The Van Dyck Room (in 1846, visitors and an artist copying Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta).
Plate 6: Rubens's Room (October 1844, City of London representatives address Louis Philippe).
Plate 7: Quadrangle Looking East, By Moonlight (with horseguards and carriages).
Plate 8: Throne Room (October 1844, the Queen confers the Order of the Garter on King Louis Philippe of France, witnessed by knights of the order seated around a long table).
Plate 9: The Waterloo Gallery (June 5, 1844, Queen Victoria wearing a ribbon of the Order of St. Catherine leads Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, who wears the Order of the Garter, into a banquet; a kilted bagpiper at right).
Plate 10: St. George's Hall (October 1844, the Queen and King Louis Philippe enter from the left followed by other royal visitors and Prince Albert, for the St. George's Day banquet).
Plate 11: St. George's Hall (October 1844; figures seated for the banquet, a bagpiper at right).
Plate 12: The State Reception Room (October 1844, men and women in white gowns sit or stroll).
Plate 13: The Quadrangle Looking West (June 5, 1844; horseguards and officers, including the Duke of Wellington and Prince Albert, ride through the interior quadrangle of the castle).
Plate 14: The South Corridor (a woman, perhaps the Queen, approaches).
Plate 15: Angle of the Corridor (a woman and girl dressed to go out, their coats trimmed with ermine; perhaps the Queen and Princess Alice).
Plate 16: East Corridor in 1846 (a boy plays with a dog, and another child and attendant are in the distance, presumably two of the royal children; shows a giltwood table attributed to Thomas Pelletier, pair of medal cabinets, and three models of triumphal arches).
Plate 17: Private Chapel (a service in progress).
Plate 18: Southeast View of the Castle (soldiers in ranks, firing a salute, with officers on horseback at right).
Plate 19: White Drawing Room (with the Queen standing and Prince Albert seated at a round table).
Plate 20: Green Drawing Room (three ladies, one playing a spinet).
Plate 21: Crimson Drawing Room (the Prince, the Queen, a child and perhaps the Duchess of Kent).
Plate 22: Private Dining Room (laid for a meal, with a standing mand and woman and a butler).
Plate 23: Castle and Garden (figures walk near a large fountain).
Plate 24: Queen's Private Sitting Room (a chair with embroidered upholstery placed next to an ornate cradle).
Plate 25: The Library (Prince Albert and the Queen consult with a librarian).
Plate 26: Interior of St. George's Chapel (with a christening service for one of the the royal children).
Dedication to Queen Victoria and List of Subjects.
Plate 2: Lower Ward (Castle and Terrace Garden, with St. George's Chapel at left, a choir and congregants exiting from two doorways, a corps of guards at right, and people strolling).
Plate 3: Grand Staircase (royal visitors ascending with beefeaters on duty).
Plate 4: The Guard Chamber (beefeaters on duty and visitors at the far end).
Plate 5: The Van Dyck Room (in 1846, visitors and an artist copying Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta).
Plate 6: Rubens's Room (October 1844, City of London representatives address Louis Philippe).
Plate 7: Quadrangle Looking East, By Moonlight (with horseguards and carriages).
Plate 8: Throne Room (October 1844, the Queen confers the Order of the Garter on King Louis Philippe of France, witnessed by knights of the order seated around a long table).
Plate 9: The Waterloo Gallery (June 5, 1844, Queen Victoria wearing a ribbon of the Order of St. Catherine leads Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, who wears the Order of the Garter, into a banquet; a kilted bagpiper at right).
Plate 10: St. George's Hall (October 1844, the Queen and King Louis Philippe enter from the left followed by other royal visitors and Prince Albert, for the St. George's Day banquet).
Plate 11: St. George's Hall (October 1844; figures seated for the banquet, a bagpiper at right).
Plate 12: The State Reception Room (October 1844, men and women in white gowns sit or stroll).
Plate 13: The Quadrangle Looking West (June 5, 1844; horseguards and officers, including the Duke of Wellington and Prince Albert, ride through the interior quadrangle of the castle).
Plate 14: The South Corridor (a woman, perhaps the Queen, approaches).
Plate 15: Angle of the Corridor (a woman and girl dressed to go out, their coats trimmed with ermine; perhaps the Queen and Princess Alice).
Plate 16: East Corridor in 1846 (a boy plays with a dog, and another child and attendant are in the distance, presumably two of the royal children; shows a giltwood table attributed to Thomas Pelletier, pair of medal cabinets, and three models of triumphal arches).
Plate 17: Private Chapel (a service in progress).
Plate 18: Southeast View of the Castle (soldiers in ranks, firing a salute, with officers on horseback at right).
Plate 19: White Drawing Room (with the Queen standing and Prince Albert seated at a round table).
Plate 20: Green Drawing Room (three ladies, one playing a spinet).
Plate 21: Crimson Drawing Room (the Prince, the Queen, a child and perhaps the Duchess of Kent).
Plate 22: Private Dining Room (laid for a meal, with a standing mand and woman and a butler).
Plate 23: Castle and Garden (figures walk near a large fountain).
Plate 24: Queen's Private Sitting Room (a chair with embroidered upholstery placed next to an ornate cradle).
Plate 25: The Library (Prince Albert and the Queen consult with a librarian).
Plate 26: Interior of St. George's Chapel (with a christening service for one of the the royal children).
Artwork Details
- Title: Views of the Interior and Exterior of Windsor Castle
- Designer: After Joseph Nash (British, Buckinghamshire 1809–1878 Kensington)
- Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, 1788–1875)
- Dedicatee: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
- Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
- Sitter: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (German, Coburg 1819–1861 Windsor)
- Sitter: Louis Philippe, King of France (French, Paris 1773–1850 Claremont, Surrey)
- Sitter: Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia (1796–1855)
- Date: 1852
- Medium: Illustrations: lithographs with tint stones
- Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 15 3/8 × 13/16 in. (56 × 39 × 2 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 14 3/16 in. (56 × 36 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 1991.1073.64
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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