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Louise & Mrs. Bray dated Jan 1849

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Jan 1849

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A watercolour showing Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, Princess Louise, in the arms of her nurse, Mrs. Bray. Mrs Bray is shown thre-quarter-length, facing forward wearing a high necked purple dress. She is holding the infant Princess Louise up, and to one side. Princess Louise is shown facing left in profile and is wearing a white nineteenth-century style child's dress, tied at the waist and shoulders with tartan ribbon.
Inscribed below: Louise & Mrs. Bray.
Inscribed lower right: VR del from nature. Jan: 1849
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil, watercolour, ink', 'pencil, watercolour, ink'