This head study was used in the two versions of the 'Car of Love' or 'Love's Wayfaring', both of which are unfinished. A charcoal version (c. 1871) in the Falmouth Art Gallery, a compositional study in pencil (c.1898) and the large oil on canvas both in the V & A (begun 1872).

In July 2004, Julia Carver, Curator of Prints & Drawings at the National Museum of Wales, suggested that this study is of Mrs Drummond, closely resembling another study in the Cardiff collection of the sitter. According to Georgiana Burne-Jones, her husband made numerous studies of Mrs Drummond, as she was the sister of a great patron of his, W.A.S. Benson (Memorials, II:80). She was born Margaret Benson and became Mrs Drummond in the mid-1880s. She was a great favourite of Burne-Jones at this time.

In addition to this study, there are three similarly identified female head studies for the 'Car of Love': two head studies of Maria Zambaco (1875); and 1875, see Bonhams Knightsbridge, 'Fine 19th Century European Paintings', 13 June 1996, and in 2007 with Maas Gallery, London, and a late head study dated 1895 (Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford).