Portfolio Cover for a Collection of Caricatures and Satires

Anonymous, British, 19th century British

Subject Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha British

ca. 1845

Not on view

This portfolio cover, likely made by an amateur collector, consists of boards covered with ornamental paper (green printed with a black foliage pattern), with the top board decorated with a hand-colored lithograph that shows Prince Albert driving Queen Victoria and three of their children in an open carriage. The prince wears a garter star on his coat, and the queen and children have ermine edged coats. The couple's first three children were Victoria (b. 1840), Edward (b. 1841), and Alice (b. 1843).

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Provenance

Title: Portfolio Cover for a Collection of Caricatures and Satires
Artist: Anonymous, British, 19th century
Subject: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
Subject: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (German, Coburg 1819–1861 Windsor)
Date: ca. 1845
Medium: Paper-covered boards, decorated with a lithograph
Dimensions: 12 × 17 1/4 in. (30.5 × 43.8 cm)
Classifications: Portfolio Covers, Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014
Object Number: 2014.757.5(1a,b)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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