Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Countess Isabel of Girgenti, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. Her hair is elaborately arranged in interlocking plaits, coiled into a chignon. She is wearing drop earrings and a matching bead necklace and a mid-coloured silk gown, decorated at the neck with a prominent bow and a tassled trim.

Isabel was the eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and the King consort, Francisco de Asis of Spain. In 1868 she married Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti but the couple had no children.