An inscription on a label attached to the reverse reads 'These figures are that of the woman/in Coast Scene in/B'ham Municipal Art Gallery./by R.P. Bonington'

This sheet of life drawings belong with a group of preparatory sketches of Normandy fisherfok for the series of marine pictures begun by Bonington in Spring 1824. For a similar drawing, same size, see Richard Parkes Bonington On the Pleasure of Painting, exhibition catalogue, ed. P. Noon, no.30, p.119, illus. colour