A good antique framed Royal Queen Victoria Commemorative Print after Parris C.1837

A good and highly attractive antique original framed Print showing the young Queen Victoria in the Royal Opera Box, after a painting by Edmund Thomas Parris by the famous Scottish printing company Maclure, Macdonald and Co. (written in the margin Maclure Macdonald and Co Lithrs Glasgow). as written: – Her Majesty Queen Victoria 1837 -.

Circa 1837

Good antique condition – untouched – frame with losses – please view images

13.25 inches (34cm) height X 11.25 inches (29cm) width approx

Safe UK shipping is included in the price, and international shipping is at cost

MacLure, MacDonald & Co. were, in Victorian times, “Ornamental Printers to the Queen”. They invented a power-driven lithographic printing press in 1853. They engraved and produced stamps for Uruguay (1866), Sarawak (1869 and 1875) and telephone stamps for Great Britain (1884). Next to stamps they produced prints. The company was founded in 1835 and was acquired in 1992 by J R Reid Printers of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire.

Andrew MacLure and Archibald Gray MacDonald set up business as engravers and lithographic printers in Glasgow in 1835. Their first premises were in Trongate but by 1851 they had moved to 57 Buchanan Street, and later relocated to a 5-storey purpose-built facility in Bothwell Street. The firm also opened offices in Liverpool (1840), London (1845) and Manchester (1886). In 1851, MacLure, MacDonald & Co imported a Sigl machine from Germany which was capable of printing 600 sheets an hour and the firm is believed to be the first in the UK to use steam power for lithographic printing.

MacLure, MacDonald & Co. survived until 1992 when its assets were acquired by J R Reid Printers of Blantyre.

Edmund Thomas Parris (1793–1873) painted several portraits of Queen Victoria, including her coronation and a portrait of her at the opera.

“The Glasgow Story – Mr. McClure”. Glasgow School of Art Archives. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
Williams, L. N. and M. A Century Of Stamp Production, 1852-1952. London: Waterlow & Sons, Limited, 1952 44p.