Large silk panel with Queen Victoria surrounded by her four sons


THE QUEEN AND HER SONS

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
su 16   Unrecorded 716
 
Words:
Woven on silk:-

MAY ALL LOVE,
HIS LOVE
UNSEEN BUT FELT
O'ER SHADOW THEE.
THE LOVE OF ALL THY
SONS ENCOMPASS THEE.
THE LOVE OF
ALL THY DAUGHTERS
CHERISH THEE.
THE LOVE OF ALL THY
PEOPLE COMPORT THEE.
TILL GOD'S LOVE SET
THEE, AT HIS SIDE
AGAIN.

(portraits of Queen Victoria and four sons)

HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA

Printed at bottom of card-mount:-
These large silks were not mounted on card-mounts, as they were first produced in 1862, and the Stevengraph pictures as such were first introduced in 1879. 

Size:

silk:
24.0cm high by 12.0cm wide

Comments:

by Sprake:

 

by Godden:

 

Other comments:
The silk title 'The Queen and Her Sons' is actually not printed on the silk. It is however the title used by Stevens in his advertisements.

This is a very large silk - and really too large to be called a bookmark.

It is a companion to Albert and His Daughters.


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