One of seven designs in Birmingham's collection for Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', six of which were used in the bay window of the Combination Room at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.
The figure of Medea was based on the 1862 finished watercolour 'Morgan le Fay', now in the collection of the London Public Libraries of Hammersmith and Fulham (on long loan to Leighton House, Kensington).