This watercolour, commissioned by Queen Victoria, shows the marketplace at Coburg with the Queen and all her children in front of the recently unveiled statue of the Prince Consort. Thomas used existing studies for the portraits of the royal family, and drew another version from the opposite side of the square, which was published in the Illustrated London News (16 September 1865). On 9 March 1866 Thomas was paid 60 gns for this watercolour and £80 for his expenses and time spent going to Coburg to attend the ceremony.