This chalk drawing depicts ‘Little Rachel’ (Rachel Siderman), a thirteen-year-old red-haired Jewish girl who sat for Sickert on alternating days in 1907. He made several oil paintings of her and a number of drawings. As the inscription suggests, this work was made in the first-floor front room of 6 Mornington Crescent which Sickert let in October 1906. The Venetian blind at the upper left-hand corner of the picture and the chest of drawers beneath it are familiar from several other paintings by Sickert. The signature – ‘Rd. St. A.R.A.’ (Richard Sickert) – demonstrates that the inscriptions were added in the mid-1920s when the artist ceased using his first name (Walter) and started using his middle name (Richard).