This model was used throughout for the Cupid and Psyche illustrations to the story in Morris's Earthly Paradise. She was the correct age and stature to embody the youngest King's daughter. "In the Greek land of the King Happy in battle, rich in everything; Most rich in this, that he a daughter had Whose beauty made the longing city glad She was so fair, that strangers from the sea Just landed in the temples thought that she Was Venus visible to mortal eyes," William Morris- Cupid and Psyche Introduction This model was also concurrently used for the panels in the Green Dining Room, Victoria and Albert Museum. There is, in Burne-Jones's art an evolution in the style of model he chose. During the 1860s, the date of this drawing, he preferred shorter, more shapely figures with rounded contours.