Pencil drawing : Sketchbook (unbound - V&A E.1 613-1926) Study of a Girl playing a Dulcimer, possibly variant pose for The Golden Stairs dating from 1879 In the Language of Flowers (Henry Phillips, 1825) ivy which the model is wearing signifies fidelity in friendship. The pencil drawing, Burne-Jones felt was too good not to use and re-visited the sketchbook in 1895 to base his mixed media version upon, in order to create a gift for Helen Mary Gaskell.