The present drawing dates from c.1866 and was dated in error by Burne-Jones when he coloured it in 1894 in preparation for its sale to Samuel Bancroft. In order to make the drawing more saleable the artist added the head and background to an extant drapery study, which accounts for the slightly disproportionate look of the figure. The original drapery study appears to relate to the painting The Lament of 1866.