This drawing, in gold crayon and watercolour on paper prepared with terracotta gouache, is typical of both Burne-Jones’s experimental method and his use of repeated motifs. Bill Waters has argued that a studio assistant may also have been involved in its making. If the date of 1876 on the label on the back is correct, then it may be as much as ten years later than an unsigned red chalk drawing – dated by Bill Waters to the mid 1860s – of similar figures looking over a balcony. The present picture was owned by the Charteris family: either Mary, Lady Elcho or her sister-in-law Lady Evelyn Charteris, and thence by descent. Lady Elcho was a particularly close friend of Georgiana, the artist’s wife. There are many extant letters to her from both Burne-Joneses in the Stanway House Collection, written between 1877 and 1896. This drawing, numbered 52 on the back, was in the same collection with another initialled drawing titled Luna, about the same size but in silver crayon on prepared blue paper, labelled and numbered 51 in the same hand.