Photograph of a bust length portrait of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002) facing three-quarters right, her face turned towards the camera. She wears a pearl necklace, a dark colour dress, a diamond brooch and a dark colour shawl. The photograph is signed and dated by the sitter.

The society photographer Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) worked for Marion Neilson, an American-born photographer based in New Bond Street, London, before establishing her own photographic studio.