Moore made a first draft of his explanation of what he called his 'shut-eye' technique on the versos of HMF 81(363) and HMF 81(362) - originally one piece of lithographic proof.

'As students, a group of us used to play a game called Shut-eye golf. Some years later remebering this I amused myself on occasions by drawing without looking at the lines I was making on the paper and this led to drawing an idea with my eyes closed - a simple subject - say a woman reading or a mother holding a child - a man smoking - with one's eyes closed only the essentials of a subject stand out and the details disappear and although the rationalistic proportions go wrong - yet as in a good caricature, the peculiar character is emphasised.'