Description The present drawing is for the child standing at Eve's knee in the Chancel Arch Mosaic The Tree of Life, which the artist designed in 1885, completing the cartoon in April 1893. The mosaic was unveiled in November 1894.(1) He described the cartoon, a mystic crucifixion, to Frances Horner in 1891: 'a great flowering tree growing all over the space;... and in the tree a very pale Christ, and on one side of it Adam, and on the other Eve, and two toddlers, and these shall stand for mankind'.(2) Burne-Jones was always reticent about the underlying symbolism of his work, and it is clear that the `two toddlers' represent Eve's two children Cain and Abel. 1. Richard Dorment, Burne-Jones' Roman Mosaics, Burlington Magazine, number 899, volume CXX, February 1978, page 81 2. F. Horner, Time Remembered, Hamish Hamilton, London 1933, page 125.