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CALEB ROBERT STANLEY (1795-1868)

The Garden Front of Buckingham Palace

dated 17 Aug 1839

Watercolour and bodycolour | 27.8 x 40.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 919891

This was mounted as the very first work in Victoria and Albert’s series of nine watercolour albums. It was given to the queen by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, as a gift in 1839, the year before Victoria’s wedding to Albert.

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