A drawing in oil on paper showing Queen Victoria landing near Tréport, France, on 8 September 1845, on her way home from a family holiday in Germany and Belgium. The royal barge is shown in the centre, with a bathing machine to the right. Figures are shown boarding the bathing machine, which is flying a French flag and is about to be pulled towards the beach by a horse. Another French flag is depicted on the royal barge, as well as a large British Royal Standard. Soldiers and crowds are on the beach to the right. Ships are on the sea in the background to the left.
Inscribed below mounted sheet: Q. Victoria's landing in France, Sept, 8^th 1845.
Inscribed lower left: Copy by Princess Louise.

The royal family stayed overnight at the Château d'Eu as guests of Louis Phillipe, King of the French, before setting sail for Osborne House, their home on the Isle of Wight, the next day. In her journal entry for 8 September 1845, Queen Victoria describes how, on leaving the Royal Yacht, she and Prince Albert "got into the King's large Barge... Both standards were flown. Instead of going up into the Port, we went outside, & had to be dragged over the sands, by a bathing machine, which did very well, a number of poor men & women having to pull the boat safe to the shore".