Richard Principal Leitch (1826-82)
St Peter's Valley, Jersey dated 1860
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 32.2 x 46.4 cm (whole object) | RCIN 920247
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A watercolour view of the valley with farm house, a stream, cows and a girl. Signed and dated: RP Leitch, 1860.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Jersey on 13 August 1859, and took a carriage ride around the island. This watercolour, painted a year later, was one of the three views of Jersey and Guernsey by Leitch painted "according to the Queen's requests" (as stated in the record of payment), meaning that Victoria probably stipulated the subjects. See also RCINs 920249 and 920248.
Richard Principal Leitch was the son of the royal watercolour tutor William Leighton Leitch, who taught Queen Victoria, her daughters and her daughter-in-law Princess (later Queen) Alexandra for almost twenty years.
This watercolour was originally mounted in View Album VIII. 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
Commissioned by Queen Victoria
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
Measurements
32.2 x 46.4 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
RL 20247