A watercolour showing a small house by the side of a mountain in the Lauchagrund, Thuringian Forest. Two tall fir trees are shown to the left, with the mountain shown sloping up to the right.

Verso: a pencil drawing showing the same house with colour notes shown to the left, from top to bottom: white, red, grey, white. Inscribed lower right: In Laucha grund [illegible] 1862.
Inscribed below pasted down sheet: In the Laucha Grund, Thüringerwald. -

Queen Victoria travelled to Brussels on 1 September 1862, to arrange the betrothal of her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. On the 4 September the Queen travelled to Reinhardsbrunn, where she stayed until 3 October 1862 in the house of her brother-in-law, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Queen Victoria made many visits to local beauty spots during her stay in Germany.