This pencil sketch from Maurice Prendergast's Italian Sketchbook depicts a standing female figure rendered with the artist's characteristic loose, gestural line work. The drawing exemplifies Prendergast's observational approach during his travels in Italy, capturing the figure's posture and form through economical yet expressive pencil strokes. As a page from his sketchbook, this work reflects the artist's practice of rapid figure studies that would inform his more finished paintings and demonstrate his facility with drawing.