Technique

The drawing, in particular the lines of drapery, is confused by another drawing underneath. There are considerable signs of rubbing and scraping out including the scraping out of a head, from the earlier drawing, below the centre at left. This earlier drawing showed a girl with a turquoise cap seated on a sofa that was draped with some material of a bright brick red. Pink and flesh colour tinted her body and draperies. This was another variation on the theme of the Carrington girls on the sofa (such as The Green Cap [M.1527]), and dated from the same period.

Conservation History

The paper is a dark greyish brown, darkened at the top under the old mount. It has small fibres and flecks of wood-stalk and some black spots, and a fine, faint, vertical grain. There are faint traces of a drawing on the verso.