The two pages and studies for The Golden Stairs relate to both of the sleeves of the girl playing a violin, half-way down the stairs (with the features of May Morris) and to the figure holding a cymbal, seventh from left whose face is obscured in the painting by the head of another musician. The beautiful folds of fabric are testament to Burne-Jones' careful attention to detail in the preparation of his paintings. The study on the reverse of one of the sheets depicting studies of a baby's head, is a study for the figure at the top of the stairs in The Golden Stairs, modelled by Margaret Burne-Jones. The two pages of studies of a baby were made in preparation for Terra Omniparens the painted inside-lid of a piano decorated for Burne-Jones’ friend and patron William Graham. The lid depicts Mother Earth amid a grape-vine among which a throng of infants and baby-fauns are clambering.