The Funeral of Queen Victoria Size:L: 75 x 50cm Plate 16 from the paper

Plate 16 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey

Both are clutching rifles and look towards the eastern horizon over which can be seen the Chinese dragon looking suitably warlike

is pursued by the Furies

by Robert Hooke (London

W & D Downey

The Funeral of Queen Victoria Size:L: 75 x 50cm Plate 16 from the paper'The Funeral of Queen Victoria', Portsmouth, 1 February 1901. The paddle steamer carrying the Queen's body passing HMS 'Victory' as it arrives at Portsmouth from the Isle of Wight. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power From 'The Illustrated London