A pencil, sepia ink and wash drawing of a female figure with a halo, stabbed by a sword and carrying a lily standing in a mountainous landscape with macabre trees and skulls. In the far distance on the right is a representation of the crucifixion. Signed with monogram and dated. It has been suggested that this accomplished and iconographically rich drawing represents the Sorrows of the Virgin, and that the skulls may be the suicides in Dante's 'Inferno;. The subject matter and archaising style of the work reflects the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, whom Eleanor Vere admired. Eleanor Vere, the Hon. Mrs Richard Boyle was the wife of Queen Victoria's Chaplain in Ordinary, and lived with her husband near Windsor. Eleanor, who illustrated and published a series of children's books, was a friend of the Princesses and Queen, who bought a picture by her in 1855 and an etching in 1860.