Prints: P1470

Title

Lucia Elizabeth Vestris

Subject

Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (Madame)

Artist

Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)

Date

1837

Dimensions

height: 22.8cm
width: 17.7cm
height: 17cm
width: 12cm

Other materials

Pencil, watercolour and ink.

Inscription/signature

Handwritten on bottom of print: "P.V.del. K.P. / l 16th 1837. From recollection) Mme Vestris - as Belinda . RC."

Provenance

Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, June 2023.

Other number

E0138

Coloured print depicting actress and contralto opera singer Lucia Elizabeth Vestris as Belinda in 'The Rape of the Lock'. Princess Victoria saw the play at the Olympic Theatre on 6 April 1837, two months before she would be Queen, and drew this from memory. Vestris is depicted full length and seated on a chair facing the left. She wears a long pink and white striped dress with pink bows on the sleeves and a pink bow in her hair. She holds a guitar in her left hand and plays it with her right hand.