Portrait of Queen Victoria

An absolutely wonderful, very large, all original micrographic lithograph print by B Israel from 1897.

This is the same as one that hangs in the V&A and there is more on their website…

Currently on display at Victoria and
Albert Museum

This very unusual image made up of lines of text describing key events in the life of Queen Victoria is both a picture and a history lesson. It took four years and seven months to complete and consists of 173,000 words. The picture was published to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It also demonstrates one of the uses that the technique of lithography, so well suited to the reproduction of texts, could be put. The story begins in the top left hand corner of Queen Victoria's hair, before the bonnet.

Currently on display at Victoria and
Albert Museum

29in x 36in 

condition is consonant with use and age