These drawings relate to the figure at the top of the stairs on the extreme left, holding a zither and to the fifth figure from the top, looking backwards. They are both essentially studies of drapery, but the second drawing depicts the most individual likeness of the whole group. The model for this drawing was probably Miss Edith Gellibrand, a comic actress and mezzo soprano who performed with the stage-name Edith Chester. She was born in Arkhangel in Russia in 1864 the daughter of a diplomat who was the former Advocate General of Madras. It is likely that she posed for the painting in the late 1870s or even 1880 when Burne-Jones wrote to George Howard seeking ‘a nice innocent damsel or two’ to fill up ‘the staircase picture’1 1. Thomas Matthews Rooke, quoted in Penelope Fitzgerald, Edward Burne-Jones – A Biography, 1975, p. 183.