This is watercolour after a design for a Morris and Company tapestry woven in 1885 and now in the Whitworth Art Gallery. The figure is after Burne-Jones (Burne-Jones was paid £25 for the original cartoon in December 1882) and the background after Morris, an example of the collaboration between artists typical of the Morris firm. The watercolour was painted in the Morris workshops by J H Dearle. The inscription is unintelligible, but the tapestry has the lines: "I am the ancient apple-queen As once I was so am I now For evermore as a hope unseen Between the blossom and the bough. Ah where's the river's hidden Gold, and where the windy grove Of Troy, once come I as I came of Old from out the heart of Summer's joy."