Queen Victoria's Sketchbook
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the formidable image of an empire's sovereign lay the tender hand of a devoted artist — and Queen Victoria's Sketchbook draws back the velvet curtain to reveal a monarch of surprising intimacy and creative passion. Marina Warner presents a richly illustrated journey through the personal sketchbooks of Queen Victoria, chronicling a lifetime of drawing and watercolour painting that began in childhood and continued throughout her long reign, capturing royal portraits, beloved landscapes, and tender domestic scenes with a candid eye rarely seen in official portraiture. Warner, a cultural historian and critic of exceptional range, illuminates the sketchbooks not merely as artistic curiosities but as profound biographical documents, arguing that Victoria's visual art unlocks her inner world — her devotion to Albert, her joy in family life, and her deeply romantic sensibility — in ways that formal correspondence never could. Grounded in meticulous archival research and written with elegant authority, this work sits at the intersection of art history and royal biography, inviting readers to reconsider one of history's most iconic figures through the frank, unguarded strokes of her own pencil. Will the queen you thought you knew survive the encounter?
Author: Marina Warner
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the formidable image of an empire's sovereign lay the tender hand of a devoted artist — and Queen Victoria's Sketchbook draws back the velvet curtain to reveal a monarch of surprising intimacy and creative passion. Marina Warner presents a richly illustrated journey through the personal sketchbooks of Queen Victoria, chronicling a lifetime of drawing and watercolour painting that began in childhood and continued throughout her long reign, capturing royal portraits, beloved landscapes, and tender domestic scenes with a candid eye rarely seen in official portraiture. Warner, a cultural historian and critic of exceptional range, illuminates the sketchbooks not merely as artistic curiosities but as profound biographical documents, arguing that Victoria's visual art unlocks her inner world — her devotion to Albert, her joy in family life, and her deeply romantic sensibility — in ways that formal correspondence never could. Grounded in meticulous archival research and written with elegant authority, this work sits at the intersection of art history and royal biography, inviting readers to reconsider one of history's most iconic figures through the frank, unguarded strokes of her own pencil. Will the queen you thought you knew survive the encounter?