Two studies exist for this painting in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Accession numbers: 1904P57 and 1904P58. Stylistically they appear to date from later than 1862 and are more like those he made in c.1864 onwards. Consequently the date of 1862 has to be put into doubt. The model is Georgiana. Rossetti was working on a subject derived from the Roman de la Rose from 1861 on which his 1864 painting the Roman de la Rose (Tate Gallery collection) was based. G P Boyce's diary records that Burne-Jones took some friends to the British Museum "... to show us some of the most beautiful illuminated manuscripts... First the "Roman de la Rose" which is filled with the most exquisite illuminations..." April 1860 ( Quoted in Surtees 1980 p 29) which would suggest that Burne-Jones, being of a more scholarly mind, was the initiator of the groups' close attention to medieval manuscripts.