This is a watercolour drawing by J.H Dearle, who was a highly skilled craftsman who worked with and designed stained glass, tapestry, carpets, wallpapers for Morris & Co., and was a close friend of both Morris and Burne-Jones. It shows the tapestry The Passing of Venus which Burne-Jones designed for Morris & Co. in 1898 and of which the original was exhibited and destroyed by fire at an exhibition in Brussels in 1910. A further copy was woven in 1922-6 and is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts.