This drawing was a wedding present from the artist to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell and his wife Florence Kate Kingsford, who had married on 4 November 1907. The present is recorded in Cockerell's diary (British Library, Add MS 52644) on 10 December that year. Neville Lytton was the son-in-law of Wilfred Scawen Blunt and knew Cockerell well, Cockerell having been Blunt's amanuensis on and off since 1897. In May 1908 Cockerell was to be appointed Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, a post he held for nearly thirty years. His wife was a disinguished illuminator