QUEEN VICTORIA

2003

Edition: Numbered from the edition of 50 signed. Total 500 (50 signed + 450 unsigned).

Medium: Screenprint

Size: 70 x 50 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in)

Year: 2003

Availability: Sold

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About This Work

In *Queen Victoria*, Banksy recasts Britain’s most emblematic monarch through his signature stencil-based street art, pairing crisp black spray paint with pared-back tonal contrast to deliver an image that is instantly legible and sharply destabilising. The work’s deadpan visual economy—borrowed from advertising and public signage—turns royal portraiture into a critique of power, nationalism, and the policing of public morality. By inserting subversive content into a historically reverential icon, Banksy collapses the distance between museum tradition and the contested space of the street. *Queen Victoria* stands as a potent example of contemporary political art: witty, confrontational, and culturally attuned to debates around identity, authority, and Britain’s evolving relationship with its own symbols. Signed edition

About the Artist

Perhaps the most famous figure in street art working today, Banksy is known for urban interventions that demonstrate irreverent wit and a biting political edge. Enhancing his mystique by maintaining an anonymous identity, the artist has modified street signs, illegally printed his own currency, and ...

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