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[Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Skating at Frogmore] c.1880-1900
Relief Colour Half-tone | 16.6 x 13.3 cm (backing sheet) | RCIN 605929
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Relief colour half-tone of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as queen and consort. Winter scene of Queen Victoria, in furs with a bonnet, seated in a sledge pushed along by Prince Albert on ice skates at Frogmore. With onlookers and a view of Windsor Castle in the background. Within an octagonal border and with crown above, without inscriptions.
This print shows Queen Victoria and Prince Albert skating on the frozen lake at Frogmore House, Windsor. The scene shows fashionable ladies and gentlemen dressed for the wintery weather, wearing hats, fur coats, and muffs standing by the bank of the lake in the background. Prince Albert was a keen skater and enjoyed playing games of hockey on the ice, as well as driving the Queen in sledge. In her Journals, Queen Victoria recounted the first time she ventured onto the ice at Frogmore with Prince Albert:
"We drove down to Frogmore & Albert pushed me in a sledge chair on the ice, which was delightful, & it went with such rapidity. I had never been on the ice before. I then walked up & down, whilst Albert & the others skated; & I watched them playing hockey. He had a fall but got up directly again."
(Queen Victoria's Journals, Wednesday 30th December 1840) -
Medium and techniques
Relief Colour Half-tone
Measurements
16.6 x 13.3 cm (backing sheet)
15.8 x 12.6 cm (platemark)
15.0 x 12.2 cm (sheet of paper)
13.4 x 11.6 cm (image)