A watercolour showing a view of a roof-tops and snow-capped mountains, probably from a window of the Maison Mottet, France. Roof-tops are shown in the foreground, to the lower right, with fir trees shown to the left. Hills are shown behind and snow-capped mountains are shown in the background. Inscribed lower left: [illegible words] Begun Ap: 2.

Queen Victoria stayed at the Maison Mottet, part of the Hotel de l'Europe in Aix-les-Bains from the 1 to 22 April 1885. In her journal entry of 2 April 1885, Queen Victoria describes how "The view from my window of the splendid mountains towards the Alps, themselves tipped with snow, with the bright sunshine, is quite beautiful, & I tried to sketch it".