A watercolour showing the ballet dancer Pauline Leroux as the character of Fenella in the ballet of Massaniello. She is shown full-length, sleeping on a large rock to the left. She is dressed in seventeenth-century Italian-inspired ballet costume.
Inscribed below: Mademoiselle Pauline Le Roux as she appeared as the character of Fenella in the ballet of Massaniello this year.
Inscribed lower left: P.V.f. K.P. Feb: 7th 1833.

The ballet of Massaniello was based on the story of the really life Italian fisherman of the same name who who became leader of the revolt against the rulers of Naples in 1647. Princess Victoria saw the ballet on 2 February 1833 at the Covent Garden Theatre.