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The visit took place in March 1855 at the Brompton Hospital, Chatham, where Barrett made sketches of the scene. Queen Victoria was accompanied by the Prince Consort and their two eldest sons, the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred (later Duke of Edinburgh)

1 print : mezzotint, with etching ; image 55.5 x 87 cm

Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.

Above, Queen Victoria, having ascended into heaven, is seated enthroned on a cloud. Prince Albert stands on the left. Around her, natives of the countries of the Empire lay gifts before her. Below, Lord Salisbury, standing with the Government behind him, reads an address of condolence to King Edward VII, seated. Behind the king stand members of the Royal Family. In the background to the lower scene, a crowd of people stand, beyond whom are seen factories, iron ships and a steam train representing engineering triumphs of the Queen's reign

1 print : photogravure ; sheet approximately 111.5 x 75.5 cm

The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.

"Perhaps his best-known work is A cottage bedside at Osborne (1865; exh. Royal Scottish Academy, 1880), depicting Queen Victoria reading the Bible to a sick fisherman, which became very popular through the engraving by William Henry Simmons."--Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004, s.v. Steell, Gourlay

A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.

Peel is represented as a tinker carrying a bucket in one hand and a box labelled 'budget' on his back; he looks out at the viewer singing 'I mend kettles and cans, I hoop mugs, pottles, and pans, and over the country I trudget it. I eat when I'm hungry, I drink when I'm dry, and carry my all in my budget'. In his box is a book labelled 'income tax'. A rival (the Duke of Wellington) sits to the right claiming 'blowed if he hasn't taken away my best customer, I'd better give up the trade!' Right, Queen Victoria holding a saucepan labelled 'finance' reassures her husband 'I really think this will hold now it was always running out as the other man mended it'. She addresses her remarks to Prince Albert who holds their baby son Prince Albert Edward

Political hits

1 print : lithograph ; image 33 x 23.6 cm.

Robert Peel as a tinker cries up his wares, including the reintroduction of income tax; Queen Victoria commends them to Prince Albert, but the Duke of Wellington complains about his rival. Lithograph ca. 1842.

The composition is that of a painting by Jan Steen showing a tooth-drawer at work in a village. The extraction of teeth here represents the extraction by the imperial powers of territories from their previous occupants
As decided at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 (13 June 13 July), Great Britain assumed control of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire, hence Distraeli is shown extracting a tooth labeled "Cyprus" from the Sultan. He is assisted by Queen Victoria and Lord Salisbury (Foreign Secretary). They are watched by Mac-Mahon (president of France) and by Fransen van de Putte, acting Prime Minister of the Netherlands, both of whom have bandages round their mouths indicating that they have had teeth extracted. The bandages are inscribed with names of things that have troubled them like bad teeth: MacMahon's bandage is labelled "Gambetta" (referring to Leon Gambetta, his Republican opponent) and Fransen van de Putte's is labelled "Atjeh" (referring to the Dutch Aceh war, a colonial war in Sumatra)
Left, Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria walks off with a sack marked "Bosnie-Herzegovina": Austria occupied those lands unilaterally in 1878. Left foreground, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who has a polar bear and a camel, is being pulled off an elephant by Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, representing Lytton's provocation of the Second Afghan War in response to perceived Russian expansion towards Afghanistan. They are watched by Pope Leo XIII and by Bismarck, the organizer of the Berlin Congress
Right background, King Umberto of Italy in the form of an ape watches the proceedings. Right foreground, Sir Theophilus Shepstone (British Transvaal Commission) pushes President Burgers of the Transvaal in a wheelbarrow marked Via Delagoa (the railway line to Pretoria?): Shepstone had annexed the Transvaal on behalf of Great Britain against Burgers's protests

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour :image 37.4 x 54.3 cm

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

1 print : lithograph ; image 24.3 x 22.7 cm

Queen Victoria at the age of seventy eight, holding a walking stick; a dog beside her. Lithograph after W. Nicholson, ca. 1897.

Two paintings by Jerry Barrett : the Queen, the nurse and the Crimean War / Jeremy Maas.

Anno tertio et quarto Victoriae Reginae.

Third issue of the long running and prestigious illustrated periodical which includes many advertisements for popular medical, hygiene and food products including Southalls' Sanitary Towels, Bird's Custard Powder, Allen & Hanbury's infants' food, castor oil, Aurophone hearing aids, Sozodont dentifrice, Dermathistic corsets, Inman's compound syrup of the hypophosphites, hair dye, Frame Food invigorating porridge, Kaye's Worsdells Pills (for constipation), Benger's Food for infants and invalids, Dr. Warner's Coraline corsets, Chivers' fruit juices, Dr. Jaeger's sanitary woollen system clothing, Harness' electropathic belts (the Medical Battery Company), Fry's cocoa, Sanitas disinfectant, Vaseline soap, Cadbury's cocoa, Pears' soap, Pepsalia, Callard & Bowser's butterscotch, Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup and Hydroleine soap powder. Includes an illustrated section of celebrities including Queen Victoria, H. Beerbohm Tree, Charles Wyndham and Henry M. Stanley.

xx, pages 228-332 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes Holloway's Pills, Holloway's Ointment, Holloway's sports & pastimes of many nations series of cards

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Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.

The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.

A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.

Robert Peel as a tinker cries up his wares, including the reintroduction of income tax; Queen Victoria commends them to Prince Albert, but the Duke of Wellington complains about his rival. Lithograph ca. 1842.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Queen Victoria at the age of seventy eight, holding a walking stick; a dog beside her. Lithograph after W. Nicholson, ca. 1897.

Two paintings by Jerry Barrett : the Queen, the nurse and the Crimean War / Jeremy Maas.

Anno tertio et quarto Victoriae Reginae.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 93A.

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Queen Victoria visiting soldiers wounded in the Crimean war. Mezzotint by T.O. Barlow, 1859, after Jerry Barrett.

The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.

A dying fisherman lying in bed is being consoled by Queen Victoria, seated by his side. Engraving by W.H. Simmons after G. Steell, ca. 1865.

Robert Peel as a tinker cries up his wares, including the reintroduction of income tax; Queen Victoria commends them to Prince Albert, but the Duke of Wellington complains about his rival. Lithograph ca. 1842.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Queen Victoria at the age of seventy eight, holding a walking stick; a dog beside her. Lithograph after W. Nicholson, ca. 1897.

Two paintings by Jerry Barrett : the Queen, the nurse and the Crimean War / Jeremy Maas.

Anno tertio et quarto Victoriae Reginae.

The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 3, March 1891 / edited by George Newnes.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 93A.

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