A watercolour showing the ballet dancer Fanny Elssler dancing in the ballet of La Sylphide. She is shown full-length, facing right in profile, with one foot extended out in front of her. She is dressed in a plaid ballet costume.
Inscribed below: Mlle Fanny Elsler [sic] as she appeared in the Ballet of La Sylphide this season at the King's Theatre.
Inscribed lower left: PV f. KP June 23d 1833.

Princess Victoria saw La Sylphide performed at the King's Theatre on 22 June 1833. In her journal entry of that day, the young princess records seeing Fanny Essler dance a Pas de Deux and describes how "She looked very pretty & danced very well".