This work survives in the collection assembled from 1919 onwards by the psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn in Heidelberg, Germany. It was sent to Prinzhorn in 1920 by the director of a private asylum in Vienna. The director concealed the identity of the patient artist behind the name 'Frau St', and indicated a diagnosis of dementia praecox (schizophrenia). Nothing more is known about her. The date for the work is derived from the dates of the newspapers she used.