A pencil drawing showing Queen Victoria at her coronation. The young Queen is shown kneeling and resting her head and hands on a raised plinth in front of her in devotion. She is shown facing left with an attendant standing behind her, holding the train of her mantle. Inscribed below: The Coronation June 28. 1838. The 1st devotion
Inscribed lower left: VR del.

Queen Victoria’s Coronation took place on 28 June 1838 at Westminster Abbey. After the event, the Queen made several drawings ‘recollecting’ the Coronation, under the guidance of her teacher Sir George Hayter.
In her journal entry of 28 June 1838, Queen Victoria describes how she would "ever remember this day as the proudest of my life".