This is a design by Richard Wynn Keene or Dykwynkyn (1809-1887), for a character in the pantomime See Saw Margery Daw, or Harlequin Holiday and the Island of Ups and Downs' which opened at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 26 December 1856, with set designs supervised by the well-known scene designer William Beverley, and costumes and pantomime 'big heads' designed by the artist, sculptor, mask and property maker and costume designer Richard Keene. This character was played by Mr. Topham and appeared in scene 1: 'The Region of Reverses in the Island of Ups and Downs'. The playbill credits: 'The Masks, Models and Physiognomical Devices, Designed and Executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn'. In an article of 1867 the playwright T.W. Robertson described him as 'the presiding genius of all theatrical Christmas revels.'

For his pantomime work Keene used the name Dykwynkyn which he characteristically signed on an artist's palette on the ground. He was also responsible for designs for a number of other lavish productions of the day, and for these he was billed as Mr. R.W. Keene.