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Queen Victoria of England

London 1819 – 1901 Isle of Wight

Memorial album, collected for her governess, Baroness Louise von Lehzen. 1820–1841

Paper bound in Moroccan leather: numerous memorabilia (locks of hair, letters, addressed envelopes, textiles etc.), contains seven photographs, eleven autographs and six drawings by Queen Victoria. quart, 20 pages (without page numbering).
This picture shows the following artwork: Queen Victoria of England. Memorial album, collected for her governess, Baroness Louise von Lehzen. 1820–1841.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 35,300

 

- 47,100

Sold for:

37,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

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Paper bound in Moroccan leather: numerous memorabilia (locks of hair, letters, addressed envelopes, textiles etc.), contains seven photographs, eleven autographs and six drawings by Queen Victoria. quart, 20 pages (without page numbering).

Supplement: textile ribbon from the purple overskirt of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796–1817), when she came to Connaught Place in 1814 after fleeing a conjugal union with Wilhelm von Oranien-Nassau (with a handwritten notation by Baroness Lehzen).

Governess Louise of Lehzen (1784–1870), Bückeburg (1841 as a gift from Queen Victoria) / thence by descent to the present owner, northern Germany (until 2001) / private collection, Bavaria

Roger Boyes: Queen's Link of Love to Exiled Nanny Found. In: The Times, 6 February 1999 / Dana Horáková: Ein Herz und eine Krone. In: Welt am Sonntag, 21 January 2001 / Christian Mayer: Aus dem Leben eines Geistesmenschen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 28 March 2001 / Michaela Blankart und Siegfried-H. Hirsch (Hg.): The Private Album of Queen Victoria's German Governess Baroness Lehzen. Bamberg, 2001