A watercolour showing a view of St Michael's Mount, Cornwall. The sea is shown in the foreground, with the mount rising up behind. Sailing boats are shown on the water to the right. A castle is shown on the top of the mount and the Cornish coast can be seen faintly in the background. Inscribed below mounted sheet: St. Michael's Mount - taken On board the Fairy off Penzance. - VR del. Sept: 5. & 6. 1846. On 2 September 1846, Queen Victoria sailed from Osborne House to Jersey with her husband, Prince Albert and some of their children. The Royal family anchored off the island until the evening of 4 September 1846 when they sailed on to Cornwall, anchoring at Falmouth Harbour before sailing along the Cornish coast the next day. On 6 September 1846, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert boarded their barge, The Fairy, and proceeded to St. Michael's Mount.