One of a number of compositional studies in Birmingham's collection for the watercolour entitled 'Theophilus and the Angel'. Two versions of the painting were made, one was destroyed in the second world war (1863), the other (c.1866) was sold at Sotheby's in 2008.The design is much the same as in the 1863 watercolour, except that the statue of Pan is omitted from the foreground, and more figures are introduced into the middle distance.