A watercolour showing Queen Victoria's second daughter, Princess Alice. She is shown full-length, seated and reading a book. She is facing left in profile, looking down at the book she is holding on a side table. She is dressed in a black and grey striped nineteenth-century style mourning dress with black earrings and necklace.
Inscribed lower left: VR - June 17 - 1860. B.P. -
Inscribed below pasted in sheet: Alice

Queen Victoria's family went into three months of mourning for Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg after his death on 12 April 1860. Prince Ernst was the husband of Queen Victoria's half sister Princess Feodora of Leiningen.