The Victorian Empire

Queen Victoria arriving at Westminster Abbey for the jubilee of 1887 heads a gallery of ceremony, celebrated Victorians and ...

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Queen Victoria arriving at Westminster Abbey for the jubilee of 1887 heads a gallery of ceremony, celebrated Victorians and imperial maps in James Taylor's history of the reign, The Victorian Empire, published by William Mackenzie in 1890. Windsor Castle appears beside portraits from science, art and literature: Michael Faraday, Charles Wheatstone, Edwin Landseer and Thomas Carlyle. The book's maps add southern Africa and Canada, showing their political territories, rivers and regional names.

Queen Victoria arriving at Westminster Abbey for the jubilee of 1887 heads a gallery of ceremony, celebrated Victorians and imperial maps in James Taylor's history of the reign, The Victorian Empire, published by William Mackenzie in 1890. Windsor Castle appears beside portraits from science, art and literature: Michael Faraday, Charles Wheatstone, Edwin Landseer and Thomas Carlyle. The book's maps add southern Africa and Canada, showing their political territories, rivers and regional names.