A watercolour depicting a topographical interior view showing the Grand Staircase from the Marble Hall in Buckingham Palace. Signed and dated: Douglas Morison 1843.

Morison was commissioned in 1843 by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who became keen collectors of the fashionable nineteenth-century watercolour genre of interior views, to paint a series of interiors of Buckingham Palace (RCINs 919897-919901, 919912 and 919917). All but one of these watercolours were exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society annual exhibition in 1844, and attracted a satirical review from William Makepeace Thackeray, who was writing under the pseudonym Michael Angelo Titmarsh.

This watercolour shows the Grand Staircase as redesigned by John Nash in 1830. The bronze acanthus balustrades were made by Samuel Parker in 1828-30.