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Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72)
The Holy Family (The Silence) dated 11 April 1828
Ink. Mounted on brown paper | 14.7 x 15.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 980014.x
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An ink drawing showing the Madonna, sleeping Christ and the infant St. John the Baptist. After Annibale Carracci (RCIN 404762). The Virgin is shown in the centre, gesturing silence to the infant St. John the Baptist, to the left. He is reaching out to touch the sleeping Christ who lies cradled on a cushion with his mother's arm around him.
Inscribed lower left: Annibal Carache [sic]. pinx.
Inscribed lower right: Feodora. del. 11th April 1828
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. -
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Medium and techniques
Ink. Mounted on brown paper
Measurements
14.7 x 15.4 cm (sheet of paper)
17.5 x 18.0 cm (mount)