AFTER EDOUARD PINGRET, PUBLISHED BY ACKERMANN & CO., 1846, PARIS AND LONDON

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VOYAGE DE S. M. LOUIS-PHILIPPE 1ER ROI DES FRANÇAIS AU CHÂTEAU DE WINDSOR, 1844
AFTER EDOUARD PINGRET, PUBLISHED BY ACKERMANN & CO., 1846, PARIS AND LONDON
Seventeen out of twenty-five lithographic plates, including the disembarkation of the French King at Gosport; the arrival of the King at Windsor; the visit to Claremont House; the King's visit to St George's chapel; the King at Eton College; Queen Victoria receiving the King in the Peristyle of Windsor Castle; the interior of the Royal carriage; the King's bedroom; and the ceremony of investiture of the Order of the Garter, each in grey-painted later frames
19 x 23 in. (48 x 58.5 cm.) including frame (17)

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Lot Essay

The French king, Louis-Philippe, landed at Portsmouth on 8 October 1844, for a Royal visit that was intended to strengthen the alliance with Queen Victoria, which had begun the previous year with her visit to the château d'Eu in Picardy. Louis-Philippe's reciprocal visit was the first visit to England by a French monarch since 1356. His arrival in Portsmouth in his paddle steamer, the Gomer, was one of several carefully staged pieces of pageantry that were widely reported in the newspapers over the following week. To welcome him the Queen'’s guns were repeatedly fired, causing smoke to build up on the anchorage, and, according to the Illustrated London News, 'the whole population thronged the beach', watching as with every 'moment this scene increased in interest'.

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