Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £160 |
Spooner's Panoramic View of the Queen's Marriage Procession. [London: Published by William Spooner, Printed by L. M. Lefevre, c. 1840]. Hand-coloured aquatint continuous panoramic strip on 18 sheets, joined (lacking the engraved title sheet), c. 3,000 x 140mm., folding into original green cloth wallet. The panorama comprises a three-metre depiction of the procession of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and their retinue, across St James' Palace into the Chapel Royal, where their wedding was held. Spooner had earlier published a similar panorama of Queen Victoria's Coronation, and produced other such 'novelty' items as a peep show of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Sold not subject to return.