Watts painted this dramatic composition of an unknown drowned woman, her feet still in the water, lying on the bank of the River Thames. Its title is a legal term used in a coroner's inquest. She clasps a chain and heart-shaped locket suggesting a tragic suicide and its cause, while her plain clothes convey poverty. Set under Waterloo Bridge, well known for illegal suicides at this time, emotion is emphasised by the woman's outstretched pose and her illuminated face. In the distance, is the vague outline of the heavy industrialised south bank, opposite Hungerford Bridge, expressing Watts's revulsion at the resulting social dislocation and despair. A radical painting for its time, it belongs to a group of four Social Realist paintings. [https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/collections/highlights-permanent-collection/#item-1294]