The Royal Yacht lying in Barn Pool, her Majesty returning from her visit to Mount Edgecumbe

This print depicts the Royal Yacht ‘Victoria and Albert’ at anchor in the Barn Pool in the Tamar Estuary during its maiden voyage on 31 August 1943. Mount Edgcumbe House and the surrounding trees can be seen on the left. A barge conveys Queen Victoria from Mount Edgcumbe to the ‘Victoria and Albert’. In the right foreground, there are small boats filled with people, who wave at the Royal Yacht. Further vessels are visible in the distance. Below the image are the publication details and the title, ‘The Royal Yacht lying in Barn Pool, her Majesty returning from her visit to Mount Edgecumbe’.

This print is part of a lithograph series entitled ‘Four views of the Royal steam yacht, “Victoria & Albert”, taken during the visit of Her Most gracious Majesty to the port of Plymouth’ by Louis Haghe after paintings by the marine painter Nicholas Matthews Condy, published in London by Ackermann & Co. and in Plymouth by Edmund Fry, in 1843. The series represents the maiden voyage of the first Royal Yacht, ‘Victoria and Albert’, which carried Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on a late-summer royal progress down the English coast. The yacht left Southampton on 28 August 1843 and stopped at Weymouth, Dartmouth, and Plymouth. Other prints from the series are PAD5874, PAD5875 and PAD5877. Two other sets are also in the collection: PAD5878–PAD5882, which includes the title page, and PAD5883–PAD5886.

Stored in folder with PAD5874-PAD5875, PAD5877.