Victoria fashion

Windsor Castle in Modern Times by Landseer depicts the Queen and the Prince Consort "at home" in the 1840s. The term "Victorian fashion" ref...

Enjoy Victoria Day or Journee Des Patriotes the official start of the summer in Canada! Drive carefully!

Victorian style and custom was influenced by this Queen.

Seaside bustle dress around 1884

This mantle of a deep wine colored velvet is demonstrative of the type of cloak fashionable in the 1840s. Description from stalkingthebelleepoque.blogspot.dk. I searched for this on bing.com/images

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This is a copy by Frank Reynolds of Winterhalters portrait of the Princess Royal (RCIN 404580). Princess Victoria was Queen Victorias eldest daughter. She met her future husband, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, when he came with his parents to the opening of the Great Exhibition on 1 May 1851. She was 11 years old and he was 21. They became engaged in 1855 and married in 1858. The Princesss costume was altered from that in the original painting, however, by Frederick Say, to show the…

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1842. 1851 (copy). 1855. 1856. 1857. 1867. Winterhalter was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's favorite portrait painter. There are literally hundreds of his paintings (and copies of his work) still in the Royal Collection today, and dozens of them are portraits of the royal couple's nine children. Winterhalter portrayed the eldest child, known in the family as Vicky, more frequently than most of the others, from her infancy until several years after her marriage. The images here are only a…