This work by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was first published in the November 1843 issue of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine as part of an article by Bon Gaultier on Young Scotland; or, an Evening at Treport. The illustrator was Lady Elizabeth Ann Gomm (1807-1877). The subject of the work was the visit by Queen Victoria to France in 1843.

In September 1843 the Queen and Prince Albert were the guests of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Marie-Amelie, at the Chateau d’Eu, their country residence close to Treport. The British royal party arrived on the late afternoon of 2 September on board the newly completed royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert'. The unflattering subjects in the work include the Duke of Wellington, the Prime Minister Robert Peel, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Aberdeen who travelled to France with Victoria and Albert and an overweight Louis-Philippe.

Lady Elizabeth Ann Gomm was the second wife of Sir William Maynard Gomm. They married in 1830. In 1842 she accompanied her husband to Mauritius, where he was Governer (1842-49).