Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The royal Windsor pair : a nations welcome : heaven protect them.
Alternate Title(s):
Royal Windsor pear
Published / Created:
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [1840?]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 14 x 11 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 79b
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
A visual pun. An illustration of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert is set below an illustration of a green pear (bearing the title); the flap containing the pear (hinged at top) may be lifted to reveal the royal couple.

The publisher may be Charles Tilt, who issued similar transformations.

Concise encyclopaedia of antiques, p. 209

Gernsheim, H. Victoria R., p. 68

BAC: British Art Center copy cased with eight other items concerning the funeral of the Duke of Wellington.
Subject Terms:
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 -- Pictorial works. | Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861 -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840. | Metamorphic pictures. | Recreations -- Great Britain. | Overlays.
Contributors:
Tilt, Charles, 1797–1861.