Journal In Addition To Sketchbook Illustrations Past Times Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria's Journals have been published online equally business office of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee.  This is the latest projection of a grand system to digitise the majestic solid too its collections too archives.

Queen Victoria was, of course, the alone other monarch to appointment to direct maintain achieved a Diamond Jubilee.

Queen Victoria was the longest serving British monarch, reigning equally Queen from 1837 to 1901 too equally Empress of Bharat from 1877. In sum 141 volumes of her mag survive, numbering 43,765 pages.

The illustrations are split upward between:

• journal illustrations She married Prince Albert inward 1840 too she is most prolific betwixt 1841 too 1860 - her child-bearing years.  The journals incorporate a number of pen too ink illustrations past times the Queen - oftentimes of her children, relatives too people inward her solid - too the dogs!  In other words precisely the same form of champaign of written report affair equally that constitute inward the journals of those who similar illustrating their journals.  
• sketchbook illustrations These are mainly pencil too watercolour studies.  Prior to union she seems to direct maintain enjoyed sketching people.  Some of her drawings are to a greater extent than studied than others.  She carried on sketching people until the mid 1840s when she starts to railroad train landscape studies of the places she lived too the places she visited - such equally this “View from the Walk close the Dee inward Balmoral Grounds”. Watercolour, past times Queen Victoria - and “Torquay”. Watercolour made on board the Royal Yacht, the Victoria too Albert, past times Queen Victoria.  She's an accomplished amateur painter inward watercolours.

An instance of her landscapes tin live seen below.  However it's obvious from her journals too sketchbooks that what she most enjoyed doing was sketching people.

Scottish Landscape Studies.  Page of watercolours past times Queen Victoria
© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012 © Bodleian Libraries © ProQuest

You tin read an attempt on Queen Victoria's sketchbook - which I personally constitute real interesting equally an concern human relationship non alone of how immature ladies were taught to pigment just too inward price of the agency her habits dot the nature of her character.

The website www.queenvictoriasjournals.org is real good atttuned to accessibility issues too has tried real difficult to brand both navigation too viewing of the Journals too illustrations equally tardily equally possible.

The projection is a partnership betwixt the Royal Archives, Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University too the online publisher, ProQuest who should live commended for their efforts inward bringing these illustrations into world view.

Other Jubilee activities

In add-on to the digitisation of Queen Victoria’s Journals, the Royal Archives has undertaken the next projects inward Diamond Jubilee year:

• An online partnership projection has been undertaken withwww.findmypast.co.uk then that earth may draw their ancestors who direct maintain worked for the Royal Household. Free access to the records, which arrive at from the seventeenth century to 1920, volition too live available inward the National Archives’ Reading Rooms inward Kew.
• A alternative of Queen Victoria’s schoolhouse re-create books volition live available for viewing at the National Archives at Kew for the showtime time.
• “Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook”, a website focused on Queen Victoria’s life too reign, including her Diamond Jubilee inward 1897, was launched past times Buckingham Palace inward Apr 2012. It contains documents from the Royal Archives, paintings too photographs from the Royal Collection, equally good equally good too cinema clips. See www.queen-victorias-scrapbook.org.
• Over the Diamond Jubilee period, the Twitter concern human relationship @QueenVictoriaRI volition tweet selected excerpts from Queen Victoria’s Journals, illustrated past times links to photographs, paintings too master documents. This concern human relationship volition run from 24th May until seventh June.

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