The recto drawing is stylistically closely related to a sketch of a water carrier datable to 1822 (Kunsthalle, Hamburg, inv. no. 1950/137a), while the drawing on the reverse is possibly earlier, datable to circa 1818, when Horny was in Olevano. Two comparable works, a drawing of two women in Olevano (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, inv. no. HZ491) and a watercolour, Sonntagmorgen in den Sabiner Bergen of circa 1822 (Alfred Winterstein Collection, Munich), show a woman wearing her hair plaited to the crown of her head, in the same fashion worn by the woman in our study.

The inscription 'Schnorr' refers to the possible ownership of the drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. The artists were close friends in Rome during the 1820s and Schnorr is known to have owned drawings by Horny.