OSBORNE HOUSE

Sand Picture of the house, with the Royal Standard flying from one of the Towers, with a large tree in the foreground. 4½" x 3" in a lace paper mount 6" x 4½", no place, no date, circa

Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo. The builder was Thomas Cubitt, the London architect and builder whose company built the main façade of Buckingham Palace for the royal couple in 1847. An earlier smaller house on the site was demolished to make way for a new and far larger house, though the original entrance portico survives as the main gateway to the walled garden.
Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in January 1901.

Item Date:  1890

Stock No:  39299      £75

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