Drawn in 1914, this drawing is a study for the sea nymph at the lower right of Halcyone, one of the largest and most ambitious of Draper’s late paintings. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915, the large painting was acquired from the Academy exhibition by the collector John Hall for his home in Eccleshall in Staffordshire. The painting remained almost completely unknown to scholars until its reappearance at auction in London in 2000, and is today in a private collection. The model for this drawing was a young girl named Ruth Torr, an artist’s model from Clerkenwell who posed several times for Draper.