Queen Victoria
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Queen Victoria
by Edward Francis Finden, published by Hodgson, Boys & Graves, and published by Charles Tilt, and published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Richard Westall
line engraving, published April 1834
16 in. x 12 3/4 in. (406 mm x 324 mm) plate size; 22 3/4 in. x 16 1/8 in. (578 mm x 409 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1960
Reference Collection
NPG D35041
Sitterback to top
- Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Reigned 1837-1901. Sitter associated with 548 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 33 portraits.
- Hodgson, Boys & Graves (active 1835), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 17 portraits.
- Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt (1796-1871), Printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 62 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Charles Tilt (1797-1861), Bookseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
- Richard Westall (1765-1836), History painter. Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D33565: Queen Victoria (from same plate)
- NPG D18719: Queen Victoria (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (18 Southampton Place, London)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (6 Pall Mall, London)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (86 Fleet Street, London)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Threadneedle Street, London)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.
Art and science
Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.
International
Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.
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