This painting was bought for just 60 guineas when it was exhibited at the Oldham Spring Exhibition of 1920. Southall's combination of modern and classical references was not widely popular.

The Times reporter felt that his "goddesses are more convincing in their fairy-tale charades than when they strike the same attitudes in Edwardian clothes in Corporation Street, Birmingham or Along the Shore". (quoted in Joseph Southall, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1980)