Victoria & Albert - Carly Collier

The arts were an important shared enthusiasm
of Queen Victoria and her consort,
Prince Albert, throughout their marriage.
Of particular personal significance for them
were the hundreds of watercolours they
commissioned to form a pictorial record of
their public and private lives together, and that
they arranged in a series of volumes, called by
Victoria
the 'View Albums'.

In celebration of the bicentenary of the births
of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert,
this publication will accompany a touring
exhibition of a group of outstanding works on
paper, some of which have never before been
published or publicly exhibited, that illuminate
aspects of both Victoria's reign and the royal
couple's passions.

The couple's commissions cover a range of
subjects: events in the lives of the royal family;
the spectacle and pageantry of the court;
travel at home and abroad; scenes relating to
the Crimean War ; the industrialisation of the
Victorian age and the pair's private life.