A watercolour showing a study of a Coburg peasant woman. The woman is shown full-length standing and turned slightly to the right. She is holding her hands together in front of her and is wearing traditional dress with a dark blue skirt and hat. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Peasant Woman from Rada - Reinhardsbrunn Sept: 1862. Queen Victoria travelled to Brussels on 1 September 1862, to arrange the betrothal of her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. On the 4 September the Queen travelled on to Reinhardsbrunn, where she stayed until 3 October 1862 in the house of her brother-in-law, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Queen Victoria took a particular interest in ethnography and national costumes and when travelling she regularly sketched peasants in traditional dress.