A Study for the figure of Athena in The Call of Perseus, first in the Perseus series commissioned in 1875 by Arthur Balfour to decorate the music room of his London house, 4 Carlton Gardens. For the related oil painting (Stuttgart) and full-scale gouache cartoon (Southampton), see Kurt Lücher, Der Perseus-Zyklus von Edward Burne-Jones, 1973, figs. 7, 25. Lücher does not list the present drawing