Queen Victoria & Prince Albert @ Balmoral – Le Blond / G Baxter print

Description: 800x600 This is a GeorgeBaxter-com listing - this guarantees that this item is genuine and as described. We only list top quality GENUINE prints at the right price. We do not sell poor quality items This is a print by Le Blond Co of London entitled ‘Her Majesty at Balmoral’ which is catalogued as LB 32. The print shows Queen Victoria on horseback alongside Prince Albert, the Prince Consort riding in their Scottish Estate at Balmoral. To their side is the young Prince of Wales later to become King Edward VII. To the rear of the party is their daughter who was to become Empress Frederick of Prussia. This view is said to represent the scene on 29th September 1855 when Prince Frederick William of Prussia proposed to the young Princess Victoria. “During our ride up Craig-na-Ban this afternoon he picked a piece of white heather (an old custom with shy Highland wooers; it means: Will you be mine?), which he gave to her, and this enabled him to make an allusion to his hopes and wishes as they rode down Glen Girnoch”. This would have been printed on hand presses circa 1855 - 1860 using the process that George Baxter patented in 1835 which was the first commercially viable printing process in colour. Le Blond was the first company to take a licence from Baxter to print by his process in 1849. The size of the print is 9 cm x 11 cm The print is in excellent condition, in the lower bottom right, and barely visible, is a rubber stamp which I know to state Published by G Baxter… this is a stamp applied to thousands of Le Bond prints in the 1920’s trying to pass them off as a Baxter print. We also have available Her Majesty at Osborne and Her Majesty at Windsor being two other prints from the same ‘set’ Please see our other EBay listings, we are happy to combine shipping. If you would like further information or images please feel free to 'contact seller' Baxter Print: A print produced by George Baxter (1804 ? 1867). He would have designed the image, engraved the steel printing plate, prepared up to 20 plus wood or metal blocks to print each individual colour and then printed them, all on hand presses, one colour at time ? his print of the Coronation of Queen Victoria took FOUR years to complete. Baxter Process: From 1849 Baxter sold licences to use his process - between 1850 and 1870?s the companies of Le Blond & Co, J M Kronheim, Myers & Co, W Dickes, Joseph Mansell and Bradshaw & Blacklock produced work by Baxter?s patent process, these printers are known as Baxter Licencees and their work as Baxter Licencee prints. Victorian colour printing of this period, much by the Baxter Process, was far superior to the majority of colour work that came afterwards when art and quality were superseded later in the 19th century by the requirements of quantity and a cheap price. Please see our website for more information on the printers and examples of their work, many items for sale About GeorgeBaxter-com - I have been a collector of Baxter prints for over 30 years. During this time I have amassed quite a vast supply of duplicate items. GeorgeBaxter.com is a hobby but run on a professional business basis and was started to help me dispose of some of these duplicate items as well as promote the work of George Baxter and his Licencees throughout the world. I am also one of main researchers into the subject. George Baxter.com has been successfully trading on the Internet since 2001 and have the pleasure of supplying private collectors, museums and art galleries throughout the world. 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Price: 5.99 GBP

Location: Burry Port

End Time: 2024-12-13T11:02:38.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.83 GBP