“The Visit of The Queen to Liverpool — 'The Queen's Coming: Hip! Hip! Hip! Hurrah!'” from “The Graphic” (22 May 1886)

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The Visit of The Queen to Liverpool — "The Queen's Coming: Hip! Hip! Hip! Hurrah!"

22 May 1886

wood-engraving

32 cm high by 22.3 cm wide — 11 ⅞ inches by 8 ⅞ inches

Illustration for The Graphic, No. 860, p. 547.

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Commentary

Queen Victoria visited the industrial metropolis of Liverpool in May 1886 to open the International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce, and Manufactures, a lavish and expensive fair intended to underscore the city's status as Britain's principal transatlantic port. The scene depicts her arrival on Tuesday, May 11, 1886. She was subsequently driven "through streets in heavy rain in her open carriage amid vast applauding crowds" (Strachey 187) to the Kensington area of the city, near Wavertree Botanic Gardens. The "second city of the Empire" underscored its importance as a commercial hub by offering tours of the Brunel steamship The Great Eastern and showing visitors a life-size facsimile of the Eddystone Lighthouse.

Bibliography

Strachey, Lytton. The Illustrated Queen Victoria. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.

Wyllie, T. (illustrator). The Visit of The Queen to Liverpool — "The Queen's Coming: Hip! Hip! Hip! Hurrah!" The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, No. 860, Vol. 33 (22 May 1886): 547.

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