Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1852 'P.W. & A.E. 1852' is stamped on the lid in gold lettering.

Portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. / Queen Victoria attended the first London performance given by the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind on the 4th of May 1847. She described the occasion in her journal: 'The great event of the evening however was Jenny Lind's appearance & her complete triumph. She has the most exquisite, powerful, & really quite peculiar voice'. She later sang among the choristers at the wedding of the Prince of Wales in St George's Chapel in 1863.

Queen Victoria with the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Princess Helena and Prince Alfred / Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1852. The face of Queen Victoria has been rubbed out, by herself, as she did not like the look.

This record describes the detail of the measurements of the image of a painting of Queen Victoria by Sir William Ross / The object is a case that opens to form a watch-holder. It contains four daguerreotypes, after portraits of Prince Albert by Sir William Ross; another after a painting of Duke Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; another after a painting of Queen Victoria by Sir William Ross; the fourth after a painting of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, by F.X. Winterhalter. See the other entries relating to this case for images and details of the other daguerreotypes. The depiction of three generations within the same object accompanied by a short family tree is appropriate for a watch holder - an item that is associated with the passage of time. This item probably belonged to Prince Albert.

Portrait of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. / One of a pair of daguerreotypes of Prince Albert of of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later Consort of Queen Victoria.