Inscribed top left "Shoe of Meleager" The drawing of "Amor" obviously derived from this study of the Townley Venus ,reveals how the relationship between life and art with Burne-Jones was one which appears to obliterate boundaries. If "Amor" was drawn from life, then the artist was deliberately seeking to to dissolve the barriers between imagination and reality.
The Townley Venus, British Museum Acc no 1805,0703.15