A study for a painting projected in about 1865 and never realised. It shows the three Fates looking down on a pair of lovers whose destiny they control. Further studies, including compositional drawings, are in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. It shows the granular, tonal style of Burne-Jones's drawings in the late 1860s. Also the drapery, which derives from his study of the pediment figures from the Parthenon, reveals his new interest in Classicism at this period.