Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Reigned 1837-1901

Location

Country: Ethiopia
City: Addis Ababa
Place: British Embassy

Samuel Cousins was a well known mezzotint engraver of portraits and decorative subjects after his contemporaries and 18th-century British artists. Born in Exeter, he was the pupil of, and assistant to, the engraver S. W. Reynolds. Cousins set up his own business in London in 1825 and would later become the first engraver to be elected a Royal Academician. He engraved plates after the foremost artists of his day including Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). His younger brother Henry Cousins (c.1809-1864) was also a mezzotint engraver.

People

Victoria (1819 - 1901)

Places

Subjects

female portrait, royal portrait, Queen

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819 - 1908)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)

Title

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Reigned 1837-1901

Date

2 February 1871

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Presented 1927

Provenance

Presented to the British Ambassador, Addis Ababa, 1927

GAC number

15512