Composition sketch Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery Acc no 1927P525 Burne-Jones was fascinated by the legend of Fair Rosamund & Queen Eleanor during the early 1860s. He had been so transfixed on his return from a walk to Godstow ruins, the burial place of Fair Rosamund, in 1854, that he had had to break his reverie by throwing stones into the river. How profound the encounter was, is shown in the number of versions dealing with the subject he produced eight years later. The pair of figures in the present drawing appears to have something in common with the rough sketch held in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery Acc no 1927P525.