Study for 'The Garden Court' episode in the Briar Rose series. Not used in 1873 version of the story, which has only three episodes, 'The Prince Enters the Wood', 'The King and his Court' and 'Sleeping Beauty', (now at Ponce Art Museum, Puerto Rico), but appears in the 1890 version at Buscot Park. Burne-Jones had posed the model as a sleeping figure for the first version of The Garden Court, but this was abandoned. This drawing relates closely to another in the Fitzwilliam collection also owned by Shannon and generated during the same studio session. A collection of drawings presented for sale at Sotheby's in 1976 form a descendant of Maria Zambaco, amongst which was a drawing of figures in the same, poses suggesting that Maria was drawing in the studio at the same time. It is possible that bearing in mind the flaws in the Fitzwilliam drawings and the large watercolour in white on red ground, this subject was a joint production.