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Buckingham Palace: garden front from across the lake

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017 | All Rights Reserved

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Date

17th August 1839

Artist

Caleb Robert Stanley (c. 1795-1869)

Collection

Royal Collection Trust

Image Link

https://www.rct.uk/collection/919891

Description

A watercolour of John Nash's garden front before Edward Blore's alterations of 1846-9. A figure with a dog walking beyond the lake may represent the Queen. Signed and dated, lower left: C R Stanley Augt 17. 1839. This watercolour shows the west front of Buckingham Palace seen from the garden. The Palace had been built for the Queen's uncle, George IV, but it remained incomplete at his death in 1830 and progressed little under his brother and successor, William IV. After Queen Victoria acceded to the throne on 20 June 1837, more than three hundred workmen had to be employed to make it habitable for her arrival there on 14 July. This `very pretty' watercolour was a present to Queen Victoria from her mother in 1839. It shows the west front of Buckingham Palace, which had been designed by John Nash for George IV. The watercolour became the first work to be mounted in the Queen's Souvenir Album series. Text adapted from Victoria & Albert: Art & Love (London, 2010).

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

Location

Buckingham Palace, London, England

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Parks
Gardens
Lakes
Palaces

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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