Lot 173
William Nicholson
(British, 1872–1949)
Queen Victoria
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Lot Description
William Nicholson
(British, 1872–1949)
Queen Victoria
woodblock print heightened in white and red watercolor
signed Nicholson (lower left in plate); also inscribed and signed For E.V. Lucas with love W.N. (lower right mat board)
9 1/2 x 9 in. (24.1 x 22.8 cm)
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance
From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
Exhibited
William Nicholson Exhibition, Browse & Darby, London March 22-April 18, 1990
Literature
William Nicholson, Twelve Portraits, William Heinemann, London, 1899
Note
Warmly inscribed by Nicholson to English humorist E.V. Lucas (1868-1938).
William Nicholson's son Andrew discusses this print in his William Nicholson, Painter (1996), "The Queen Empress had invariably been presented with every device of pomp and panoply that could conceal...the fact that Victoria of Great Britain and India was a dumpy little old woman...It was William who first had the temerity to present this unheroic old figure just as it was; an animated tea-cosy, walking an Aberdeen in the gardens of Kensington Palace... When Whistler congratulated William on his woodcut of Queen Victoria, William said: 'But she was such a good subject.' To which Whistler replied: 'She might well have said the same about you.'" (pp. 64-5)
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