A watercolour and bodycolour drawing of an Italian peasant girl holding a basket of fruit above her head. Signed and inscribed: "R. Buckner f / Ischia". On brown paper, attached along the top to a piece of cream paper. The verso of the second paper is inscribed "Should there have to be" and "Should there be occasion to take out/this drawing it must be done with great care. The drawing is fixed on this paper".

This is one of six paintings presented by Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, probably in 1845, to be set into panels in the east door of his dressing room at Windsor Castle. Three works from this series are now untraced; two were drawings of the heads of Italian men and the third was another full-length watercolour of a standing woman. In 1844 Queen Victoria had given Albert another six works for the west door of his dressing room (RCINs 922508-12; one of this series is untraced), and a couple of years prior to that Prince Albert had acquired a different set of six works by Buckner for the north door in the same room (RCINs 922502-7). These two earlier series of paintings were still in position in 1928 and can be seen in photographs of the room's interior taken at that date, but were subsequently removed and placed in the Royal Library.

Buckner, who was a painter of portraits and Italian peasants, was patronised extensively by the Royal family, particularly in the 1840s.