In the late 1880s and early 1890s, for his own pleasure, Burne-Jones abandoned his meticulous recording, for a more informal style. He chose thickened watercolour for it's speed, allowing him to enjoy the physical act of painting and the realisation of the products of his imagination, most notably in his paintings in The Flower Book with which this watercolour has much in common. The design for ‘Veni de Libano’, (Song of Solomon) from The Secret Book of Designs p 425 has a similar figure looking up