Signed in ink and inscribed 'Venezia 1903' and further inscribed with an indistinct title in pencil and the number 206.

This work is catalogued as no.219.6 (p.297) in Wendy Baron's complete catalogue of Sickert's work. The catalogue note gives a fair amount of information about it, including its exhibition at the Carfax Gallery in 1911 as A Foreshortening.
It also related to Baron no. 232.
Baron explains: "I think it was just that Sickert at around this period (1903-5) tackled foreshortened figures. The disposition of the bed (diagonal rather than parallel to the plane), the turn of the head to the right, the disposition of the legs and the backgrounds are not the same in drawing and painting." email to James Hyman, 2011