The Wedding of Psyche was one of forty-seven designs made by Burne-Jones in 1865 for 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' in William Morris's Earthly Paradise, when it was intended to publish the cycle of poems with numerous illustrations. The scheme came to nothing, but Burne-Jones subsequently developed a number of the designs as easel paintings. The Wedding of Psyche formed part of a frieze based on the 'Cupid and Psyche' illustrations which, with the assistance of Walter Crane, he painted between 1872 and 1881 for the morning-room of George Howard's London house, 1 Palace Green (see Studio, XV, October 1898, pp. 3-13). The paintings are now in the Birmingham City Art Gallery. A separate oil version (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels) was exhibited at the New Gallery in 1895. The present study is for the figures of Psyche and the attendant immediately behind her, who plays a dulcimer. On stylistic grounds it can be dated to the early 1870s, so it may be related to the Palace Green frieze rather than the Brussels painting. However, it is not known exactly when the latter was started