 She illustrated "Isla de Cuba pintoresca" by Manuela de Andueza.According to a report by the royal doctor, her sudden death at the age of twenty-nine seems to have been precipitated by a severe emotional shock she suffered upon encountering a violent demonstration while leaving the Royal Palace, the day after the fall of the Espartero régime; what might now be called an acute stress reaction.However, an obituary in the "Gaceta de Madrid" from later that year, written by a friend of her brother, indicates that she died from an intestinal infection (probably cholera).