Interior of St George's Hall, Windsor Castle: Queen Victoria, with Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, receiving foreign visitors during the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Signed, and with monogram, dated and inscribed.

The Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in London was a six-month display of colonial culture and commerce, and a demonstration of British imperial power that coincided with Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. On the 8th July, Queen Victoria, Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg received gifts from foreign visitors employed or connected with the exhibition. In the watercolour visitors from India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the Cape of Good Hope, British Guiana (now Guyana), Hong Kong, and Cyprus are depicted. Each visitor was given a large portrait of the Queen, an album of views of Windsor, and a photograph of Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, the Secretary to the Royal Commission.

When he sent this watercolour to Sir Henry Ponsonby on 25th October 1886, Pritchett explained that the price was unusually high as 'it has taken much doing' (Windsor Royal  Archives PP Vic 20717/1886). Pritchett offered to make a larger version for the Queen, but this was refused, and the Queen did not wish for her drawing to be reproduced. However, a version 35.6 x 73 cm was at Bonhams, Knightsbridge on the 10th November 1993 (78), as the property of A. M. Wallis. On the 16th November Pritchett, who was about to set off round the world ('Eastward Circum Orbem') with Lord Brassey, offered to make any alterations as necessary before he went.