Engraved wooden block featuring a naked female wrapped in her own long hair. She is stood on the shoreline of a body of water surrounded by birds. Mountains rise in the background as well as a pagoda to the right. The female character is Venus from an illustration for 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' by William Morris with illustrations designed by Edward Burne Jones. Discussions about this project started in the1860s. Burne-Jones drew over forty designs for Morris to engrave on wood before the project was abandoned. The book was later published from the original blocks by Rampant Lions Press in 1974. White powder has been rubbed into the block to show the difference between the printing lines and the areas that have been cut from the wood. One of a series of proof impressions of four previously unpublished engravings carved after Burne-Jones by Arthur Burgess.