LONDON Queen Victoria in Drawing Room at St. James Palace

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1841 (Internet sources). Publisher: Joseph Mead, 10 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches, (19.5 x 25.5 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the images.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Original narrative: Drawing Room of Queen Victoria - St. James's Palace, Ceremony of Presentation : "While the ceremonial of a British Drawing Boom is not an idle and unmeaning one, it presents a scene such as can be nowhere else witnessed, not even in the private circle of royalty itself, and one of which no adequate idea can be formed, except by those who have actually witnessed it. Here etiquette is observed d la rigueur, and in such manner as almost to have a touch of sublime—if we may, without suspicion of irony, be allowed so to express ourselves, for want of some more clear and satisfactory explanation of our meaning. Here, even the lustre of beauty itself is for a while overpowered, forgotten, and lost in the superior fascination of the scene itself, and of the courtly grace and dignity displayed in full force on such occasion. Add to this, not only the surpassing richness but the studied pomp of the ladies' dresses, and the unrivalled display of plumes and trains, and jewelry, —the last looking like the congregated gems of all the Indies. The present female Court dress may safely be affirmed to be far more tasteful than that of any former period; it combines, in an eminent degree,, gracefulness and elegance. The abolition of those two most preposterous fashions, hair-powder and hoops, has materially improved it, and without in -the least diminishing its magnificence, has given it a degree of simplicity and ease in which it was before sadly deficient;—and neither of tiaose outrageous fashions will now, it is to be hoped, ever come into vogue again, The regulations of etiquette prescribe trains, and for head dresses feathers and lappets, with jewelry d discretion, proscribing anything in the shape of bonnets or caps; consequently, it is needless to say, that "drab-bonneted" ladies are not admitted to the Drawing Room at St. James's. However splendid and costly their attire may be on other occasions, nowhere—not even at Court itself—does the costume of the ladies show itself so distingue, and so rich; nor is the adoption of it matter of choice, for the etiquette which exacts it in the one case, prohibits it in every other, unless by some special exception. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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