3-052-768 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Roma, by H.I.H. the Crown Princess of Germany (Princess Royal of England), in the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1880. 'The Crown Princess of Germany has become an honorary member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and her Imperial Highness has, we understand, expressed her willingness to exhibit at the gallery of the institute...[She] has contributed a drawing entitled "Roma, 1880"...Her Imperial Highness, like almost every other member of our Royal family, is known to have been from a very early age an amateur of art, practical as well as theoretical, and on several occasions her talent has been devoted to some benevolent object either in this country or in Germany...this, her first contribution to the Society's Exhibition, we have received the Princess's permission to engrave. It represents a little Italian contadino, in his well-known picturesque costume, and was painted during the Princess's residence in Rome last winter. The drawing is executed with the vigour and boldness of an accomplished artist'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.