Sketchbook Saturday, week 7

This Saturday we’re looking at this wonderful watercolour by Queen Victoria, which depicts St. John’s College as seen out of her Dressing Room at Trinity College in Cambridge. Victoria stayed here between 5th and 7th July 1847 to celebrate Albert being elected as the collage’s chancellor the previous March. In her journal Victoria wrote that “At 1, we went with P^ce Waldemar to the Library to see Thorvaldsen’s statue of L^d Byron, the Poet, which was not allowed to be placed in Westminster Abbey, & which we did not admire. From here we walked through the courtyard; crowded with people, along the Cloisters, which were decorated with flowers, table being laid for the company, & on, to the grounds of St. John’s College, where there were numbers of people.”