This plaster statue is a copy after the life size marble statue of Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, representing ‘Summer’, which Prince Albert had commissioned in 1847 to the sculptor Mary Thornycroft. Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal and oldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, is depicted half-seated on a tree stump, wearing a loose classical robe and holding a sheaf of corn in her hand. Commissioned for Osborne House, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's summer residence in the Isle of Wight, the full-size marble statue was part of a group of four in which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's oldest children were depicted as allegories of the 'Seasons'. These statues pleased Queen Victoria so much that she commissioned several replicas and reductions after the original. This copy was possibly commissioned by Queen Victoria.