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Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72)

Tusnelda c.1833-72

Watercolour, embossed paper | 21.7 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 931877

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  • A watercolour showing Tusnelda. The half length female figure is shown with an oak wreath upon her head, and wearing fur robes. The figure is holding arrows in right hand, against a background of trees. The watercolour is contained within an embossed border, inscribed with the title 'Tusnelda' below.
    Inscribed below: Tusnelda / H.R.H. the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg

    Princess Feodora was the first daughter of the Duchess of Kent, by her first marriage to Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen. After her marriage to Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 18 February 1828, Princess Feodora moved to Langenburg in West Germany but kept up a constant correspondence with her younger half sister, Princess Victoria. She often sent drawings and watercolours with her letters back to England.

    This watercolour is entered into an album given to Queen Victoria by Lady Charlotte (1803-89), known as the Lady Charlotte St Maur Album. Princess Victoria recorded the gift of this album in her Journal as ‘a beautiful album with a painting on it’ (24 May 1833). Lady Charlotte presumably gave the album to the Princess empty, to be filled by her as desired.
  • Medium and techniques

    Watercolour, embossed paper

    Measurements

    21.7 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper)

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