Inscribed with colour directions " blue black white blue red" For an assistant to lay in, at this date T M Rooke. After the experience of producing The St George Series, in which he required the help of an assistant, it became apparent to Burne-Jones that he would be able to execute all the products of his fertile imagination with help. As T M Rooke observed "An early cherished idea of his was to get much done by means of a "school" of artists and assistants he should train" (Rooke's notes to the Story of Troy quoted in the 1930 catalogue of Birmingham Art Gallery). This perfunctory drawing with its colour notes, indicates the emergence of a workshop mentality and gives evidence of the work in progress with T M Rooke painting on the final canvas.