Her Majesty Sketching at Loch Laggan
Willmore's engraving reproduces an 1847 painting by Landseer (Royal Collection) that Queen Victoria commissioned as a Christmas present for Prince Albert. The image commemorates the royal family's first visit to the Scottish highlands that summer, when they stayed at the Duke of Abercorn's estate Ardverikie. Accompanied by her two eldest children, the queen sketches the dramatic landscape, and pauses to greet a ghillie who leads a pony loaded down with a stag shot by Prince Albert. Dressed in a kilt, the Prince of Wales points admiringly towards the animal.
Artwork Details
- Title: Her Majesty Sketching at Loch Laggan
- Engraver: James Tibbits Willmore (British, Handsworth 1800–1863 London)
- Artist: After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
- Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight)
- Sitter: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (British, London 1841–1910 London)
- Sitter: Victoria, Princess Royal (British, London 1840–1901 Friedrichshof)
- Date: 1858
- Medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé; proof before letters
- Dimensions: Plate: 19 7/8 × 24 1/2 in. (50.5 × 62.3 cm)
Sheet: 21 7/16 × 27 3/8 in. (54.5 × 69.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.40.197
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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