With a further pencil sketch (verso) titled "The Lovers" and other inscriptions

Watercolour with gouache, 12 by 7.5 cm

Provenance: a gift to a previous owner from Kenneth Clark in May 1943, according to an inscription to the reverse of the original Rowley Gallery backboard

One of a series of illuminating inscriptions on the verso of the present drawing (see illustration below) is possibly a reference to the painter and photographer Malcolm Arbuthnot (apparently a memo by the artist to meet the latter at 12). Arbuthnot was commissioned by the Goupil Gallery to take photographs of a number of leading artists of the era including Pryde, who also exhibited with the gallery.