The sitter is identified by an inscription on the reverse of the frame which was translated from the original mount.

Watercolour drawings of Paddington fields by Cristall were included in the Exhibition of the artist's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, March-April 1974 nos. .....

The critic Herbert Furst wrote of this drawing in Apollo, February 1939, p. 79 as 'a sketch of great merit, so full of light and air that neither Claude, nor Constable, nor Pissaro would have been ashamed to own to it