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Charlotte Canning, Viscountess Canning (1817-61)
Drummond Castle 1849
Watercolour with white bodycolour | 16.8 x 24.8 cm (whole object) | RCIN 920155
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A watercolour of an exterior view of the castle, with terraced gardens in the foreground.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert made their first visit to Scotland in September 1842. The royal tour, which lasted two weeks, was largely organised by the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Midlothian and Gold Stick of Scotland, and his wife Charlotte, who was Queen Victoria's Mistress of the Robes, in conjunction with the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. The Queen and Prince stayed at Drummond Castle with Lord and Lady Willoughby 10-13th September. Victoria described the gardens of the castle in her journal entry of 11 September as "really very fine, with terraces, & quite like a French garden". She described the Castle in a letter to her half-sister Feodore as "a mere cottage...but neat" (Royal Archives, ADDU/171/151/11 September 1842). Lady Canning, one of Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting, did not accompany the royal party to Scotland on this occasion; this watercolour was painted in 1849 when Lady Canning was at Drummond, in Perthshire.
This watercolour was originally mounted in View Album I. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert compiled nine View Albums during their marriage. These albums contained watercolours and drawings documenting their life together and were arranged in chronological order. The albums were dismantled in the early twentieth century and rebound in new volumes both in a different arrangement and with additional items, but a written record of their original contents and arrangement still exists.Provenance
From Queen Victoria's View Album, volume I, folio 33; evidently inserted at a later date
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour with white bodycolour
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16.8 x 24.8 cm (whole object)
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RL 20155