Queen Victoria

Printed at bottom of card-mount:-
 

silk:
8.9cm deep by 6.4cm wide

by Geoffrey Godden:
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Dominions, etc., she was born on the 24 May 1819, succeeded to the throne in 1837 and ruled until her death on the 22 January 1901.
Several Stevengraphs depict Queen Victoria under separate titles.

A portrait-size picture of the Queen, facing right, with the woven wording above:
'Queen Victoria. Born May 24th 1819. Crowned June 28th 1838' (see image above).

Here, the Queen appears to be more elderly than in the 1887 Golden Jubilee portrait, and this one may well have been issued to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
It is a very rare silk portrait.

It is noteworthy that the woven credit to T. Stevens occurs at the top of the silk, in the same way that book-markers and similar articles were marked. {In Godden's book, he has an image of this silk portrait with the Stevens credit at the top. The image above has it at the bottom. Elsewhere I have seen the bookmark with the credit at the top, so it would seem that the silk above was cut off in the wrong place.}
It is possible, therefore, that this silk may not have originally been woven as a silk portrait to be mounted in the normal manner.
A book-marker of this design is recorded {as sb1628 on this site.}.

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