The recto drawing previously unidentified and the verso misidentified as an Annunciation, the subjects are here identified as episodes from the story of Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund. The recto shows Queen Eleanor holding up an embroidered cloth about the enter the maze, which Burne-Jones has signified with a rose trellis. Verso Queen Eleanor has reached a doorway leading to the centre of the labyrinth where, according to Thomas Deloney "Most curiously that bow'r was built, Of stone and timber strong, It's hundred and fifty doors, Did to this bow'r belong" In the sketches above, the Queen appears to be spying on the illicit couple's liaison. Burne-Jones's fascination with the story of Fair Rosamund, which he painted several versions of between 1861 and 1863 was concurrent with that of Rossetti, who painted it in 1861, now in the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff. Jane Morris appears to be the model for the Queen in all of Burne-Jone'ss versions.