A watercolour showing a view of Osborne Bay from Osborne House. A hill is shown in the foreground, gently sloping down from the left. Trees are shown behind to the right and the sea is shown in the background. Sailing boats are shown dotted on the water and the far coastline can be seen in the distance.
Inscribed below mounted sheet: View from the new House at Osborne VR del: Sept: 15. 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. In her journal entry of 15 September 1846, Queen Victoria describes how she "Wrote, read, & sketched out of my window, from which the view over the sea, is quite beautiful".