A watercolour showing the view from the Sitting Room window at Osborne House. Carpet is shown in the lower foreground, with open curtains shown to either side. A stone balustrade is shown across the lower half of the page, with a view of trees and Osborne Bay in the background.
Inscribed below mounted sheet: View from the Sitting Room Window of the New House at Osborne. VR & Albert del: Sept: 18. 1846.

The Osborne Estate, on the Isle of Wight, was purchased by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845. Work was started straight away on rebuilding Osborne House in the Italianate style, to designs by Prince Albert, and the royal family stayed there for lengthy periods each year.