This is a design by Richard Wynn Keene or Dykwynkyn (1809-1887), for a character in an un-named pantomime, ca.1860, for a beetle wearing a mob cap and apron, inscribed 'This is the Beetle, with her thread and needle', a beetle standing on her back legs and manipulating a large needle with two front right legs into a lace-edged cloth she holds with her two front left legs. We do not know the pantomime in which this character featured, but it would have had a scene relating to the death of Cock Robin since the beetle is the character in the traditional nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin?who offers to make a shroud for Cock Robin. In an article of 1867 the playwright T.W. Robertson described Dykwynkyn 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.