Bronze Empress Victoria
by Fred Larucci
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8.500 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Bronze Empress Victoria
Artist
Fred Larucci
Medium
Drawing - Graphite Illustration On 96lb. Bristol Canson Sheet Stock Paper
Description
(2014) "Empress" Victoria - India, 1877 Bronze One Rupee Coin - Illustration No.82 Hand Drawn in Graphite on 96lb. Bristol Thick Board Sheet Stock - Pencils used: 4h, h, b, 5b - Drawing time: 45 Hours to complete. This is the 5th Coin in my "Coin Series" and the first foreign coin. Originally done in Graphite, this coin was Tinted Bronze using Adobe Photodeluxe
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 � 22 January 1901) was born at Kensington palace in London on 24 May 1819. She started the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 01 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India. She inherited the throne at the age of 18. Her reign of 63 years and 7 months, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
After the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown and in 1877, Victoria became Empress of India. Her empire also included Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa. The coins issued after 1840 bore the portrait of Queen Victoria. The first coinage under the crown was issued in 1862 and in 1877 Queen Victoria assumed the title the Empress of India.
(CC) 2014 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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