This is a drawing for the head of Fortune from the 1870's, showing an intermediate stage in which Burne-Jones combined the elaborate plaits and the swathed headdress from the two ideas for the figure he was considering. The present treatment of the head can be compared with the headdresses of the Libyan and Erythraean Sybils on the Sistine ceiling. A Hollyer photograph exists of a drawing of the head of Fortune, with a very elaborately plaited hairstyle and dated 1876 (Witt Library). Although this date is retrospective and may be slightly inaccurate, it indicates the height of Burne-Jones's interest in fanciful hairstyles in the early and middle 1870's. Note in the present drawing the indication of Fortune's raised left arm, turning the wheel.