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Lady Elizabeth Keith Heathcote, née Lindsay (fl.1815-d.1825)
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Lady Elizabeth Keith Heathcote, née Lindsay (fl.1815-d.1825)

Twelve drawings of Queen Victoria as a child including: Princess Victoria riding a chair (illustrated); Princess Victoria climbing a miniature chair; Princess Victoria and her nurse playing hide and seek; Princess Victoria with a ball (illustrated); Princess Victoria seated amongst seashells holding a pen (illustrated); Princess Victoria stroking a poodle; Princess Victoria riding a donkey; Princess Victoria seated on her nurse's lap; Princess Victoria with dancing doll; Princess Victoria with a toy rabbit (illustrated); Princess Victoria with Elizabeth Anne Heathcote with a flower crown (illustrated); and Princess Victoria taking tea with her nurse (illustrated)

細節
Lady Elizabeth Keith Heathcote, née Lindsay (fl.1815-d.1825)
Twelve drawings of Queen Victoria as a child including: Princess Victoria riding a chair (illustrated); Princess Victoria climbing a miniature chair; Princess Victoria and her nurse playing hide and seek; Princess Victoria with a ball (illustrated); Princess Victoria seated amongst seashells holding a pen (illustrated); Princess Victoria stroking a poodle; Princess Victoria riding a donkey; Princess Victoria seated on her nurse's lap; Princess Victoria with dancing doll; Princess Victoria with a toy rabbit (illustrated); Princess Victoria with Elizabeth Anne Heathcote with a flower crown (illustrated); and Princess Victoria taking tea with her nurse (illustrated)
one inscribed 'Princess...poem/writing to Charlotte to come here/Oct' (on the reverse); one inscribed and dated '...Elizabeth for/I am going away tomorrow/Oct 2. 1822' (on the reverse)
pencil and pink wash, two with blue wash, one with ochre wash, unframed
4½ x 3 in. (11.5 x 7.6 cm.); and slightly smaller (12)
來源
The artist and by descent in the family to Major Eustace Gresley until his death.
Adeline Edwards by 1897.
出版
A. Edwards, 'A Peep at the Queen in Infancy', The Lady's Realm, London, vol. II, pp. 135-138.
注意事項
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拍品專文

Lady Elizabeth Keith Lindsay was the eldest daughter of Alexander, 23rd Earl of Crawford and 6th of Balcarres, of Haigh Hall, Wigan and Dunecht. She was married to Richard Edensor Heathcote, M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, of Apedale and Longton Halls, Staffordshire. Lady Eizabeth was an intimate friend of the Queen. Her only daughter, Elizabeth Anne was five months younger than Princess Victoria and the two were playfellows.

This series of drawings was executed during the Princess's stay with her mother at the seaside village of Ramsgate with the Duchess of Kent in 1822. Lady Elizabeth had studied under Gainsborough and was a talented amateur artist, much like her kinswoman, Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford (1818-1891). One of the most interesting drawings shows Victoria holding a ball. According to the inscription which reads '... Elizabeth/for I am going away tomorrow' Princess Victoria is presenting her playfellow with the ball as a parting gift.