Her Majesty the Queen
Created by Francis John Williamson
Date: 1886
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Description: This bust was exhibited in 1888 at the Glasgow International exhibition (cat. no. 1642) and is inscribed F.J. Williamson Sc/ ESHER. It was presented by Lady Blythwood (1930) to the Glasgow Museums collection. The inscription commemorates the occasion on which Archibald Campbell, 1st Lord Blythswood, entertained the Queen at Blythswood when she was on a state visit to Glasgow in 1888. (Source Glasgow Museums collection database, Mimsy XG, 13.09.2013).
Inscriptions
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at The Sixty-First Autumn Exhibition, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1887
1887
Citing this record
'Her Majesty the Queen', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib4_1202481889, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
