Author: PRINCESS CHARLOTTE
Title: Sacred to the Memory of Her Late Lamented Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales & of Saxe Cobourg Saalfeld.
Description: R. Halliwell, engraver, Jan 1st., 1826. Large commemorative engraved sheet, 550 x 410 mm. on chine collé, some old creases. The central portrait is after Thomas Lawrence and the poetic dedication by Walter Paton. See British Museum number 1878,0713.1932 for a trimmed example. Princess Charlotte [1796 - 1817], the heir to the throne, married Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg Saalfeld in 1816. On 5th November 1817 she gave birth to a stillborn boy> Charlotte died the following day to much public grief.

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