Roffe (Felix Robert, 1814-1887). Princess Maude, (after Sir Joseph Edge Boehm), 1875, fine grisaille watercolour with traces of bodycolour on paper after the sculpture by Joseph Boehm, depicting the young Princess Maud holding a cat, sculptor's name, date and artist's name to mount in pencil, sheet size 34.4 x 20.5 cm, contemporary framer's label of Foord & Dickinson, Carvers and Gilders, 90, Wardour Street, W. to verso, further contemporary label with printed number 347 and 'Queen's Spare Room' written in pencil, and pencil note written directly on the board 'H.M. The Queen of Norway as a little girl, on no account to be given away at my death but sent to H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Norway [? final two words indistinct]', to verso, mounted, framed and glazed (43 x 31 cm) (Quantity: 1) Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria (1869-1938) was the youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. She became Queen of Norway in 1896 when she married King Haakon VII. Their only child, Prince Alexander of Denmark, became King Olav V of Norway in 1957. The intriguing pencil inscription and inventory label indicates that this drawing was evidently at one time in the possession of the royal family, for whom framers Foord & Dickinson were known to have worked. Felix Roffe was the son of the engraver Robert Cabbell Roffe, and worked as an intermediary draughtsman for The Art Journal. Joseph Boehm's sculpture was exhibited at the Royal Academy and titled 'Little Harry', the moniker by which the tomboyish Maud was known within the royal family. A terracotta version of it was exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition of North Wales and the Border Counties at Wrexham, 22 July 1876 (see Catalogue of the Art Treasures Exhibition of North Wales and the Border Counties, 1876, page 9).
Roffe (Felix Robert, 1814-1887). Princess Maude, (after Sir Joseph Edge Boehm), 1875, fine grisaille watercolour with traces of bodycolour on paper after the sculpture by Joseph Boehm, depicting the young Princess Maud holding a cat, sculptor's name, date and artist's name to mount in pencil, sheet size 34.4 x 20.5 cm, contemporary framer's label of Foord & Dickinson, Carvers and Gilders, 90, Wardour Street, W. to verso, further contemporary label with printed number 347 and 'Queen's Spare Room' written in pencil, and pencil note written directly on the board 'H.M. The Queen of Norway as a little girl, on no account to be given away at my death but sent to H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Norway [? final two words indistinct]', to verso, mounted, framed and glazed (43 x 31 cm) (Quantity: 1) Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria (1869-1938) was the youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. She became Queen of Norway in 1896 when she married King Haakon VII. Their only child, Prince Alexander of Denmark, became King Olav V of Norway in 1957. The intriguing pencil inscription and inventory label indicates that this drawing was evidently at one time in the possession of the royal family, for whom framers Foord & Dickinson were known to have worked. Felix Roffe was the son of the engraver Robert Cabbell Roffe, and worked as an intermediary draughtsman for The Art Journal. Joseph Boehm's sculpture was exhibited at the Royal Academy and titled 'Little Harry', the moniker by which the tomboyish Maud was known within the royal family. A terracotta version of it was exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition of North Wales and the Border Counties at Wrexham, 22 July 1876 (see Catalogue of the Art Treasures Exhibition of North Wales and the Border Counties, 1876, page 9).
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