A gold and bronze drawing of two draped full-length female figures dancing back to back. Signed and dated: "E/B/J/ 18/96". Another depiction of two girls dancing, also dated 1896 and extremely similar in conception and technique, is at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. Burne-Jones began exhibiting works in this technique from 1890 onwards, many of which were head studies made, as F.G. Stephens described it, for the pure "rapture of colour-expression" ('Athenaeum', Feb 4 1899). Burne-Jones recorded admiring a Byzantine Gospel book with sheets which had been dipped in dye numerous times to produce a deep saturation of colour, and it appears that in these works he was striving to achieve the same effect.