Lacroix & Fils, A Geneve. A fine 18K gold key wind open face pocket watch with enamel decoration depicting the Duchess of Sutherland and her daughter Elizabeth Circa 1835Offered from the T P Camerer Cuss CollectionLacroix & Fils, A Geneve. A fine 18K gold key wind open face pocket watch with enamel decoration depicting the Duchess of Sutherland and her daughter ElizabethDate: Circa 1835Movement: Gilt bar ruby cylinder, 3-arm balanceDial: Foliate engraved, black Roman numeral hour markers, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at 6, gold moon handsCase: Foliate engraved hinged with enamel portrait to reverse depicting the Duchess of Sutherland and her daughter Elizabeth after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A., coined band, No.45709Signed: Dial & movement, case stamped 'E&R'Size: 36.5mm Accompaniments: Photocopy of correspondence between T P Camerer Cuss and Major Wickham, private secretary to Queen MaryThe portrait depicted on the back was identified in the 1950s via correspondence between Mr T. P. Camerer Cuss and Major Wickham, private secretary to Queen Mary. In a letter dated 1st February 1952 Major Wickham relayed that Queen Mary was sure the miniature depicted the Duchess of Sutherland and her daughter based on an original painting housed at Windsor Castle. Further discussion with Mr Adams, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, revealed that the original painting was in fact on display at the Royal Academy. The original painting was executed by Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A in 1828.Harriet Elizabeth Georgina Leveson-Gower, nee Howard, Duchess of Sutherland (1806-68) was a close friend of and Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria and was the Queens only companion for some weeks after Prince Albert died. She was married to the 2nd Duke, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. They had eleven children with her eldest daughter, Elizabeth (1824-2878), becoming Duchess of Argyll in 1844 and the eldest son, Lord George Granville William becoming third Duke of Sutherland. Provenance:T P Camerer Cuss CollectionPurchased November 1951Painting Exhibited: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy 1769-1868, Winter Exhibition, 1951-52, Gallery VI, number 189Illustrated:T P Camerer Cuss, The Country Life Book of Watches, Country Life, 1967, colour plate page 32T P & T A Camerer Cuss, The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, AC C 1976, colour plate 2