A study for one of four allegorical figures, Fortune Fame Oblivion and Love which formed part of the predella of the 'Troy Triptych', conceived by Burne-Jones in 1870. The triptych as a whole was never completed but parts were worked up as independent pictures. Small panels of the four allegorical figures are in the Watts Gallery at Compton Fortune became the well-known Wheel of Fortune of which so many versions exist, and large versions of Fame Oblivion and Love mainly by Burne-Jones's assistant T. M. Rooke, are in the Birmingham City Art Gallery. Birmingham also has a large oil sketch showing what the triptych would have looked like had it been completed as a single entity