A watercolour showing the North and East fronts of the house, seen from higher parkland above; sheep graze, a single figure stands to the right, and the countryside stretches out in the distance. Signed and dated at lower right: 'C R Stanley 1841'.

Brocket Hall was the home of Lord Melborne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister and and close advisor. The Queen had long wanted to visit Brocket Hall, and she and Prince Albert did so for lunch on 30 July 1841 as part of a short tour of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Victoria thought that the grounds of the house were beautiful.

This watercolour was originally mounted in View Album I. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert compiled nine View Albums during their marriage. These albums contained watercolours and drawings documenting their life together and were arranged in chronological order. The albums were dismantled in the early twentieth century and rebound in new volumes both in a different arrangement and with additional items, but a written record of their original contents and arrangement still exists.