Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Elizabeth, Queen Dowager of Prussia, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image, with her face turned towards the viewer. Her hair is arranged in two braided chignons on either side of her head. She is wearing an elaborate headscarf, decorated with flowers and a geometric pattern. She is wearing a dark coloured velvet garment, trimmed with lace at the shoulders.

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his Queen, Friederike Karoline Wilhelmine Margravine of Baden.

In 1823 she married the future King Frederick William IV of Prussia.