Photograph of a group portrait of fifteen male and female subjects comprising the Deputation of Lithau who sent a letter of condolence to the Queen on the death of the Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess Alice of Great Britain & Ireland. The group are all seated with the male subjects all central to the camera. The women wear long dresses and velvet jerkins with hair in plaits and all of the sittes face the viewer. Two of the men wear medals and a painting hangs on the wall in the right background.