A cartoon of 1873, for a stained glass window in the library at Cragside, Northumberland. Dante and Chaucer comprise one of ten panels. They appear to have been painted from the cartoons originally designed for the windows of the Combination Room at Peterhouse, Cambridge, although there the poets stand against a quarry ground instead of in pairs under arches supported by columns.
Sotheby's are incorrect in their statement that the designs of the figures were first made for the Combination room at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Virgil and Horace (Cartoon held in Yale collections Acc. no B1983.29) were designed in 1873 for Cragside. The design with Dante and Chaucer is obviously a pair to Virgil and Horace , therefore it is logical to conclude that they also were designed for Cragside. Their appearance at Peterhouse as single figures against quarries would suggest that they were a second use. In defense of this argument it was not Burne-Jones' practice to re-draw figures again to insert them in a matching surround, this was left to the Morris & Co. workshop.