Photograph of Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee
by FRITH, Francis
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London Francis Frith and Co. 1897, 1897. Photograph of Queen Victoria in her carriage outside St Paul's Cathedral during the celebrations for her Diamond Jubilee. Photograph measures 560x450mm (to top edge, top corners are rounded) in a cream mount and contemporary carved wooden frame (835x715mm). The photographs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee were printed and published by Francis Frith and Co, the firm founded by the great travel photographer in 1859 and which quickly became one of the largest photographic companies in the world employing numerous photographers. Frith himself died in 1898. As part of the celebrations for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Queen Victoria was driven in her State Coach to St Paul's where a service took place on the steps of the Cathedral. The Queen was too old and infirm and couldn't leave the Coach so her Bishops came to her. Crowds are everywhere, even in precarious temporary stands on the roofs of the surrounding buildings. At the centre of the wonderful panorama is the Queen, tiny, almost invisible in the throng. But, of course, everyone was looking at her. The photograph is of her. Naturally, the Queen herself was perfectly aware of this. She wrote in her diary that it was "a never-to-be forgotten day... No one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation as was given to me... Every face seemed to be filled with real joy".
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- Seller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3441
- Title
- Photograph of Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee
- Author
- FRITH, Francis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London Francis Frith and Co. 1897
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Voewood Rare Books
Biblio member since 2018
Holt, Norfolk
About Voewood Rare Books
Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.