6.4" x 4.7" glass plate negative showing a three-quarter length portrait of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse. She is standing, facing forward. She is wearing a light coloured dress with a tri-lapel in varying patterns of black and stripes with a double row of buttons down the bodice. The collar and cuffs are white and ruffled. She is wearing a black headband and an arrow-shaped brooch and holding a rose in her left hand. She is positioned behind a marble ballustrade which a textile of some kind is resting upon. Various flora and fauna are visible in the back and foreground. Corresponding gelatin silver print of negative: RCIN 2507623.