This was the last print that Cameron ever made. After 35 years of happy marriage, Lady Cameron died from cancer in 1931. Her death was a great blow to Cameron and he never really recovered from the loss. Soon after he gave up printmaking completely. He described the period after her death as 'the time of darkness'. This print seems a poignant testimony to his wife’s sufferings. Cameron told his sister Katharine that ‘it was drawn from an ancient and crumbling fragment during our last journey to Oberammergau and is full of memories.’.