The drawing does not appear in Virginia Surtees' Catalogue Raisonné of Rossetti's work (1971), having been discovered after this was published. It was, however, included in the recent exhibition of Rossetti's studies of Lizzie, the milliner's assistant who did so much to inspire his early work, married him in 1860 after a long and often traumatic engagement, and died in tragic circumstances two years later. Madox Brown wrote that Rossetti's studies of Lizzie were so numerous, 'it (was) like a monomania with him'. Yet the present drawing is unusual in that, as Mrs Surtees observes in the catalogue of the recent exhibition (under no. 36), Lizzie was 'rarely represented out-of-doors'. Her most characteristic pose is reclining in a chair as a result of her poor health