Henry Bone made a notable success during his career of producing historical sequences of portrait enamels for exhibition and sale. This enamel is from the series of English Sovereigns and Queens from Edward III to Queen Victoria which was completed by Henry Pierce Bone after his father's death in 1834, building on a group of 11 historical copies by Henry Bone dating from as far apart as 1815 and 1831. To this were added 22 of his own enamels, all but one being completed in 1835 – 7. These were then united and presented for sale as a group of 33 with a 'Catalogue of a Series of Portraits of the Sovereigns of England from the Earliest Period … to the Present Time; together with several of the Queens Consort Painted in Enamel by the late Henry Bone R.A. … and Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to Her Majesty The Queen Dowager & H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent' (City of Westminster Archives, D86/fol. 16). Prince Albert purchased the series in 1843, paying two instalments each of £200 in July and October for Henry Bone's 'Enamels of the Kings & Queens'

This enamel was adapted by H.P. Bone from the drawing by Henry Edridge (1768 – 1821) of 1803 in the Royal Collection. He must have made use of his father's original squared drawing for the composition, which is in the Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London (Bone, Drawings III/26a), inscribed: Her late Majesty after the Original by Edridge in the Possession of Princess Sophia and dated August 1820.

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: Charlotte / Queen of George 3rd. London April 1837. Painted / by Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to her / Majesty & their Royal Highnesses the Duches [sic] of / Kent & Princess Victoria. From a Picture / by Edridge in the possession of H.R.H. / the / Princess Augusta and further inscribed: July 1836 and signed and inscribed in ink on a label on the reverse: Charlotte / Queen of George 3rd. From / the Original by Edridge in / the possession of H.R.H. / the Princess Augusta. / Enamel HPBone / 12 Percy Street / Bedford Square.