Agar, John Samuel: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent [Herzogin Victoria of Kent (1786–1861)]
Despite the unflattering widow’s weeds, the feminine charms of the Duchess of Kent and her fine facial features are shown off even on this copper plate. When the associated etching was published in 1820, Edward, her second husband and father of the little princess and heiress to the throne Victoria, was dead. A drawing by the Coburg artist Sebastian Eckardt served as a model for the print. As can be seen from the inscription, he did not dedicate his work to the Duchess of Kent, but to her mother, the Duchess Auguste Caroline Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.