The Feast of Peleus depicts the marriage of the mortal Peleus to the sea-goddess Thetis with all the Olympian gods in attendance: Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan and Apollo.
The rough sketch of the Feast of Peleus was made in preparation for an illustration to the story in William Morris's Earthly Paradise. Below the feasters there is a sketch of a sleeping dragon at the foot of the tree that bears golden apples, one of which Eris , Goddess of Discord, picks and throws into the feast to disrupt the revelers. The sketch on the reverse contains ideas possibly for the first of the St George series The Petition to the King