The image is made from screenprinted Nivea moisturising cream onto which dust has been sprinkled. It is after Thomas Lawrence's famous canvas 'Pinkie' (1794). The paper is taken from a book of 200 year old archival paper that protected Lawrence's prints and drawings in the British Museum. The girl in the picture (Sarah Goodwin Barrett) died a year after the completion of Lawrence's work. There is a wry irony in the use of Nivea, a youth-enhancing product emblematic of contemporary vanities, to glance back at a work that poignantly arrests its doomed subject in time.