This design made by Joseph Nollekens is for a sepulchral monument, a structure marking or denoting a burial site, commemorating the tragic deaths of Mrs Henry Howard and her newborn baby. She died in childbirth. Her monument is in Wetheral Church, Cumberland. The design represents Religion, in the form of a woman, comforting the dying Mrs Howard with her infant in her lap. This is a variant of another design for the monument [E.470-2010]. This monument was widely praised as Nollekens' masterpiece by his contemporaries. There is a terracotta model for this monument in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) which shows Nollekens' first idea for the project. This drawing is compositionally much closer to the monument of which there is a trial drawing in the V&A. Nollekens is best known as the leading portrait sculptor in Britain between 1770 and 1815. With his fellow Royal Academicians Thomas Banks and John Flaxman he established the British School of sculpture following decades of dependence on immigrant sculptors (such as Rysbrack, Scheemakers and Roubiliac). Flaxman praised Nollekens as the only sculptor before Banks who had "formed his taste on the antique and introduced a purer style of art". As a draughtsman he was exceptionally well trained for his day.