Studies taken from Mary Bartley, the house maid at Little Holland House. Known as "Long Mary" because of her height and long legs. She appears only once in the series in "Psyche Entering the Bath" (Drawing held in the Ashmolean Museum Collections )but her figure was rejected in favour of a plumper model for the series.
From a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' made to accompany the poem in William Morris''The Earthly Paradise'. These sketches differ considerably from the final wood engraving.