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 addition to this study, there are three similarly identified female head studies for the 'Car of Love': a head study of Margaret Benson Drummond (1880), another head study of Maria Zambaco with slight variation (1875, see Bonhams Knightsbridge, 'Fine 19th Century European Paintings', 13 June 1996; in 2007 for sale at the Maas Gallery), and a later female head study dated 1895 (Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford). There are also two figure studies at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (D.1960.70 & 71).