Detail from showing paintings hanging on the wall of Buckingham House

Royal Portraiture

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    Box commemorating Edward VII's return to health

    1902

    RCIN 22407

    This portrait of Edward VII (r.1901–10) was printed on the lid of a small enamel box to celebrate the King's return to health in 1902. Popular portraits could be printed on a range of materials as keepsakes to record an important event. Small boxes with portraits of monarchs were popular from the eighteenth until the twentieth century.

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