Cupid and Psyche - Palace Green Murals - Cupid Finding Psyche Asleep by a FountainBy Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane 1872 – 1881 Accession number: 1922P187 Oil on canvas. Width: 1245 mm Height: 1195 mm InformationThe first in a series of twelve panels, based on 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' from William Morris's epic poem, 'The Earthly Paradise', commissioned by George Howard (later the 9th Earl of Carlisle) in the late 1860s for his newly-built home in No 1 Palace Green, Kensington.
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