The page of the album on which this drawing was mounted was annotated by Miss Moore 'Mrs Wainwright's', for whose possible identification as the wife of the notorious Thomas Griffiths Wainewright see lot ... p.9.
The sitter's appearance and costume is close to that in lot ... and other drawings, identified by Schiff as showing Mrs. Fuseli in the early 1790s, such as S. 1084 and 1087. As in lot ... the hair relfects the fashions of c. 1790-94