Like 'Fides' mounted with it, this 'Caritas' is completely different in design and feeling from later versions, particularly the watercolour of 1872 (Collection of Lord Lloyd Webber). It also differs from a contemporary version, also in Birmingham's collection, in which the figure is not as finished. This was also intended for St Edburg's in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
Sketchbook V&A E3.1955 Three studies of female figures (Virtues) in medieval costume standing on crouching figures (vices) and one medieval figure wearing a crown and holding a wheel (Fortune) from casts of sculptures in Salisbury Cathedral Chapter-house