Mervyn Levy (The Drawings of L.S. Lowry Public and Private, London, 1976, under pl. 203) comments on Lowry's depiction of a single standing figure, which the artist frequently executed in drawings from the late 1950s until the end of his life: 'He concentrated upon types, or upon simple situations such as A Man taken Ill (Private Collection). In most of these drawings the figure is totally isolated in an expanse of white paper - a method which serves to intensify the view, and to concentrate the attention of the spectator solely upon the subject, who is thus exposed as though studied through a telescope or even under a microscope. In this way the artist offers a voyeur's view of his subjects, who are themselves completely unaware that they are being scrutinized: a cruel and telling ploy'. In the present drawing, the figure is joined by a sketch of a tiny dog.

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