Lamp and Tall Girl
graphite, ink, and gouache
10.5" x 8.86" (26.7 x 22.5 cm)

This girl seems to have rather long legs.

Those two strange white things by the model's head are straps used to support the model's arms in certain poses. They are hanging from some piping which is not visible in the drawing.

Francis Bacon, the British artist, loved incongruous visual devices similar to the two straps in this drawing. He would often include a light bulb, a daub of paint, or some other odd element in his paintings. These help to emphasize the incongruity of things within the painting, and from there, for Francis Bacon, the incongruity of life itself.

Below are two examples of Bacon's work, taken from an excellent site on Bacon, the Francis Bacon Image Gallery.