A first formulation of an idea for a triptych representing the beginning of the fall of Troy, which eventually became the polyptych The Story of Troy (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery). In this sketch Eris, goddess of discord is seen on the right picking the apple, while the Dragon sleeps below, curled around the trunk of the apple tree, in the garden of the Hesperides. The central episode has her casting the apple into the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis and then to the left, Paris is seen making his judgment of the three goddesses. The interior scene on the reverse of this shows figure(s?) kneeling before a King seated on a canopied thrown, is possibly a study for the first subject of the St George series, The Petition to the King. Drawn at this date (c.1868) the drawings indicate how the artist was moving away from the emphatic medievalism into, a more Renaissance style which had been advocated by Ruskin and Watts. His two previous visits to Italy were having the requisite effect. The caricatures showing showing philistine people in fashionable dress queuing to peer at a painting, epitomizing the agonies an artist had to suffer on the exhibition of his paintings. They appear to have been drawn by two different hands and were probably made whilst whilst Burne-Jones was painting is Spencer Stanhope's studio.