Their Royal Highnesses Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, &c. &c. in Their Box at Covent Garden Theatre

1817

Not on view

This portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold (later Leopold I, King of the Belgians) was made soon after their 1816 marrage and shows the couple attending London's Covent Garden Theatre. Tragically, Charlotte would die within the year giving birth to her first child. Had she lived, she would have become Britain's monarch after her father George IV.

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Title: Their Royal Highnesses Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, &c. &c. in Their Box at Covent Garden Theatre
Engraver: William Thomas Fry (British, 1789–1843)
Artist: After George Dawe (British, London 1781–1829 London)
Publisher: William Thomas Fry (British, 1789–1843)
Sitter: Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (British, London 1796–1817 Clermont House, Hersham)
Sitter: Leopold I, King of Belgium
Date: 1817
Medium: Stipple engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 5/8 × 16 1/16 in. (54.9 × 40.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.40.35
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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