A pen and ink drawing showing the Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the characters of Amina in Bellini's opera La Sonnambula and as the title character in Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena. Grisi is shown in the character of Amina wearing a full gown, and tiara, standing with her right hand raised to her breast. In the character of Anna Bolena, Grisi is shown in a sixteenth century dress with a gable hood, clasping her hands in front.
Inscribed below: Somnambula Mlle Grisis as Anna Bolena Feodora del

Princess Feodora was the first daughter of the Duchess of Kent, by her first marriage to Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen. After her marriage to Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 18 February 1828, Princess Feodora moved to Langenburg in West Germany but kept up a constant correspondence with her younger half sister, Princess Victoria. She often sent drawings and watercolours with her letters back to England.

This drawing is entered into an album given to Queen Victoria by Lady Charlotte (1803-89), known as the Lady Charlotte St Maur Album. Princess Victoria recorded the gift of this album in her Journal as ‘a beautiful album with a painting on it’ (24 May 1833). Lady Charlotte presumably gave the album to the Princess empty, to be filled by her as desired.