This is one of a number of drapery studies which Burne-Jones made in preparation for a series of six stained-glass panels for the Green Dining Room of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). These were installed by the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co which Burne-Jones had helped to found. The finished design shows the draped female figure reaching out to pick a rose from a tall bush. The delicate hatched shading is typical of the artist’s drawing technique of the mid-1860s. (Courtauld Permanent collection label)