Queen Adelaide (1792-1849) (after George Richmond)
James Thomson (Mitford, Northumberland 1790 - London 1850)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1841
Materials
paper, glass & wood
Measurements
380 mm (H); 280 mm (W); 520 mm (H); 405 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286047
Summary
Print, stipple engraving, Queen Adelaide (1792-1849) (after George Richmond) by James Thomson (Mitford, Northumberland 1790 - London 1850). Head and shoulders portrait of Queen Adelaide, with below an inscription describing how the Queen wished to be buried and signed by her in November 1841. She wears a white mob cap. The portrait shows Adelaide when she was the Queen Dowager her husband William IV had died in 1837. The inscription was written at Sudbury Hall where she became seriously ill in November 1841 but recovered and did not die untill 1849 age 57.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Marks and inscriptions
inscription describing how the princess wished to be buried and signed by her in 1841
Makers and roles
James Thomson (Mitford, Northumberland 1790 - London 1850), engraver (printmaker) after George Richmond RA (Brompton 1809 – London 1896), artist