A pencil drawing showing the mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran as the character of Isoline in Balfe's opera The Maid of Artois. She is shown full-length facing right with her head bowed and turned away from the viewer. She is holding her hands clasped in front of her. She is wearing theatrical costume.
Inscribed below: M^me Malibran as Isoline in the Maid of Artois. 1^st Act.
Inscribed lower left: PV del. KP. June 19^th 1836.

Princess Victoria saw The Maid of Artois performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 17 June 1836. Maria Malibran was one of the most famous opera singers of the nineteenth century until her untimely death in 1836.