A watercolour showing a German peasant woman, Elisabetha Korn. She is shown full-length, facing slightly to the right. She is wearing a nineteenth-century style black peasants dress with a tall hat. She is carrying a long basket on her back. Inscribed lower left: Elisabetha Korn aus Einberg - Oct: 7. 1860.

From 22 September to 17 October 1860, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert travelled to Germany, with their second daughter Princess Alice, to visit their married daughter Victoria, Princess Royal. Queen Victoria took a particular interest in ethnography and national costumes and when travelling she regularly sketched peasants in traditional dress.