Drawing for a book illustration

Veronica Whall is best known as a prominent Arts & Crafts stained glass artist, co-founding the company Whall & Whall with her father in 1922. However, this delicate work in progress is an illustration, perhaps intended for a storybook, and reveals Whall's process of building an image from a rough sketch to a detailed rendering. Here we see an introspective young woman gazing straight ahead at a mirror, seated at a desk - perhaps drawing a self-portrait.