To celebrate sketchbook Saturday, this week we are looking at this magnificent portrait by Queen Victoria in 1889, which shows her Indian servant – and later her “munshi” – Abdul Karim. The Queen’s watercolour and pencil sketch is after Rudolph Swoboda’s 1888 portrait of Abdul, which hangs in the Durbar Corridor at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.
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