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Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72)

A group of women resting at a monument by the roadside from Stromburg to Bingen  c.1833-50

Watercolour | 18.6 x 22.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 931921

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  • A watercolour showing a group of women resting at a monument by the roadside from Stromburg to Bingen. A group of five women and two infants are shown resting beside an obelisk at a roadside, set against the background of a mountainous landscape. The women are shown in peasant dress, with three travelling barefoot and carrying baskets, one figure is shown seated at the foot of the monument resting her head on her arms.
    Inscribed below: after nature on the road from Stromburg to Bingen / Feodore. del. / H.R.H. the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg

    Princess Feodora was the first daughter of the Duchess of Kent, by her first marriage to Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen. After her marriage to Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 18 February 1828, Princess Feodora moved to Langenburg in West Germany but kept up a constant correspondence with her younger half sister, Princess Victoria. She often sent drawings and watercolours with her letters back to England.

    This watercolour is entered into an album given to Queen Victoria by Lady Charlotte (1803-89), known as the Lady Charlotte St Maur Album. Princess Victoria recorded the gift of this album in her Journal as ‘a beautiful album with a painting on it’ (24 May 1833). Lady Charlotte presumably gave the album to the Princess empty, to be filled by her as desired.

  • Medium and techniques

    Watercolour

    Measurements

    18.6 x 22.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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