This confident and vigorous drawing was exhibited at the New Gallery in the winter of 1900-1901, when Helen (‘Lena’) Richmond was about 30. The composer Hubert Parry, who was a friend of Richmond and his large family, most of whom were musical, nicknamed her ‘Podgelfat’ when she was little, but she appears to have grown out of that. The chair and table can be seen in a photograph of Richmond’s studio of about this time.