A watercolour showing the south-west entrance to the Parc du Bruxelles, where the Place des Palais joins the Rue Royale, which leads away into the distance on the left; many people are entering the park on the right. Autumn colouring is shown in the foliage. Signed 'W Wyld'.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Belgium for the first time together in September 1843, on a visit to their uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, and his wife Louise. They later mounted a number of watercolour views of the places they stayed at and visited, including Brussels, in the first of a sequence of albums known as their View Albums. Victoria and Albert compiled nine View Albums during their marriage. These albums contained watercolours and drawings documenting their life together and were arranged in chronological order. The albums were dismantled in the early twentieth century and rebound in new volumes both in a different arrangement and with additional items, but a written record of their original contents and arrangement still exists.