This is a study for the north transept, west wall, of Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. A note in William Morris' hand on the reverse reads: 'These designs will go by the side of the 3 theological virtues designed by you so long ago. I send you one of them to remind you of the fashion thereof. There also should have the ...vices under foot'. This is a scale drawing.
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