A watercolour showing three German peasant girls at the Rosenau. The girl to the left is shown full-length, standing facing left in profile with a large basket on her back. The girl to the right is shown full-length, standing facing forward with her hands held together at her waist. The girl in the centre is shown seated on a bench behind her with her hands in her lap. All three girls are dressed in Coburg peasant dress with tall headdresses. Notes on colour have been inscribed all around the image. Inscribed below in German Schrift: [?Nŭnler ŭnd Waldsberuf] Rosenau - am 25th Aŭg: 1845 VR del f[ro]m nature. In August 1845, Queen Victoria made her first visit to her husband's homeland. The Royal Family arrived in Germany on 11 August and then visited the Rosenau, Prince Albert's childhood home, from 19 to 27 August 1845. In her journal entry of 25 August 1845, Queen Victoria describes how she sketched "3 good little peasant girls — quite children, they are quite poor children, & yet so well dressed". This watercolour was used as a preparatory sketch for RCIN 980054.b