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The artist was an alumna of the Slade School and a suffragette. The sculpture was given to College Hall, the University of London's first women's hall of residence, by the artist's sisters, c.1932–1934, after Downing's death, in memory of Downing’s work for women. Pompilia was a young Roman wife and mother who was murdered by her husband, Count Guido Franceschini, in 1698 for supposed adultery. Her story was popularised in Robert Browning's 1869 poem, 'The Ring and the Book'. This work is located at College Hall, University of London.