 As soon as he arrived home , Etty began to work on ensuring he had at least one picture ready for the 1824 Summer Exhibition . He decided to return to a theme for which he had created a sketch in 1820 , that of the story of Pandora and in particular the passage in Hesiod in which the seasons crown her with a wreath . He had exhibited a sketch in 1820 on the same theme , and had already decided on the arrangement of the figures . His first attempt in 1824 was abandoned half @-@ finished , and he began again on a smaller canvas with different positioning of the key figures of Pandora , Vulcan and Venus . 
