A watercolour showing a view from the Rosenau, Coburg. Trees are shown in the foreground with hills stretching out to the distance. Inscribed below: [?Schönstetter] Grand from the Rosenau - Oct: 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 to Reinhardsbrunn, where she stayed until 3 October 1862, before moving on to stay at the palace at Coburg until 17 Ocober 1862.
Queen Victoria made many visits to local beauty spots during her stay in Germany. The Queen visited the Rosenau several times during her 1862 stay in Coburg. Queen Victoria describes in her journal entry of 12 October 1864 how she visited the Rosenau with her third daughter, Princess Helena and "sketched there, on the terrace, coming home in the dark".