Venetian Scene

by Queen Victoria, Prince Albert

$1,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An original etching by Prince Albert. A talented amateur artist, Queen Victoria took up etching as a hobby, introducing the art to her husband shortly after their marriage in 1840. The royal couple etched frequently for about four years, the Queen being the more prolific, producing sixty-two plates as against the Prince's twenty-five. Both Sir George Hayter and Sir Edwin Landseer taught the royal couple. The plates were etched at Windsor Castle, sometime with both Victoria

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