The forty-ninth block in the series (numbers corresponding to a list copied from one written by William Morris). The blocks were cut c.1868-8, but these proofs were probably printed in the 1880s. Around fifty of the designs for Morris's poems, "The Earthly Paradise", were cut as woodblocks by William Morris, George Campfield, Elizabeth Burden and George Wardle, though Morris later abandoned the project. According to a list copied by one made by William Morris, which lists the titles and block cutter's names, the set owned by the Fitzwilliam is incomplete. J.R. Holliday also owned a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' and a collection of tracings of the designs, which he bequeathed to Birmingham Art Gallery.
"Rise, Psyche, and be mine for evermore, For evil is long tarrying on this shore." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 242