Victoria [Queen] Two Studies of the Princess Royal 1843 {1893} NGV [ET]

Victoria, Queen (1819-1901; German/English)
[Two Studies of the Princess Royal] 1843
Etching on chine collé, 16.3 x 21.3 cm (plate), 30.0 x 43.4 cm (sheet)
Donated by Queen Victoria, 1893
National Gallery of Victoria (p.192.3-1)

NGV 1894 and 1905 list both the present print and Victoria [Queen] Victoria on Jan.1 1844 {1893} NGV [ET] as showing ‘the Princess Royal in Fancy Dress.’

The plate is clearly inscribed (lower left) ‘VR 26/2 1843’ and (lower centre) ‘Victoria jun {?} February 10. 1843’.

Refs.

NGV 1894, p.69 (III.Vestibule, no.9 or 12); NGV 1905, p.106 (IV.Vestibule, no.10 or 13): each print is listed as showing ‘The Princess Royal in Fancy Dress’

The NGV catalogue (following Scott-Elliott?) lists this print as ‘Three {sic} studies of the Princess Royal in eighteenth-century costume 1844’