BM16162-design-for-a-regency-1830-0486
identifier:
BM16162-design-for-a-regency-1830-0486
title:
Design for a Regency
date:
July 8, 1830
description:
The Duchess of Kent sits regally on the throne while holding the orb and turning her head to watch Princess Victoria, who sits on Prince Leopold's knee, holding the sceptre and with the crown half-covering her little head. He wears uniform, sits on a lower seat, but with his right foot on a footstool. He holds out twin cherries to the child. On a table are Sweet Meats and Sugar Candy, on the floor a doll. On the right, framed by pillars, is the Council Chamber. Wellington presides, in the royal chair]. Behind him Grenadier Guards with fixed bayonets stand at attention. Inconspicuously at his right hand, and below the dais, sits William IV. Peel stands at a side-table, his back to Wellington, looking conspiratorial. The Archbishop is among those seated on Wellington's left. Dialogue is in speech balloons over Leopold and Wellington. Source: George
description:
British Museum #16162
format:
26 cm x 36 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2018.29 1830
subject:
William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
subject:
Victoria, Duchess of Kent
subject:
Leopold I, King of the Belgians
subject:
Sir Robert Peel
subject:
Queen Victoria
subject:
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
subject:
Regencies
subject:
Monarchies
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Heath, William
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections