A watercolour and bodycolour drawing of an Italian peasant boy with a sack between his legs. Signed and inscribed: "R. Buckner f / Rome". On brown paper.

This is one of six works presented by Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, probably in 1845, to be set into panels in the east door of his dressing room at Windsor Castle. Three works from this series are now untraced; two were drawings of the heads of Italian men and the third was a full-length drawing of a standing woman. In 1844 Queen Victoria had given Albert another six works for the west door of his dressing room (RCINs 922508-12; one of this series is untraced), and a couple of years prior to that Prince Albert had acquired a different set of six works by Buckner for the north door in the same room (RCINs 922502-7). These two earlier series were still in position in 1928 and can be seen in photographs of the room's interior taken at that date, but were subsequently removed and placed in the Royal Library.

Buckner, who was a painter of portraits and Italian peasants, was patronised extensively by the Royal family, particularly in the 1840s.