The most complex and the most coloristically ambitious print in the entire collection — a large horizontal work with a vivid red-orange ground covering the entire surface, against which multiple elements in different colors exist simultaneously. This is unmistakably a multi-color print: the red field is one layer, the blue spider at left a second layer, the cream elements at center and right a third, and the green accents a fourth.
The spider at left is the same form as 895 — the eight-legged spider with the concentric oval body marking — here printed in blue-gray against the red ground, creating a cool-against-warm color contrast of maximum tension. The spider is the protagonist of the composition; everything else orbits it.
At upper right, a cream form with internal leaf markings — possibly a botanical element from another print matrix. At lower right, a wrapped or folded cream form, and beside it the sinuous labyrinth form from 876 and 893, here appearing in muted brown-gray against the red. A small green element at lower right corner — the labyrinth's smaller inner form — is the only cool note in an otherwise warm-and-red composition.
This print reveals Sidney's most ambitious printmaking ambition: reusing matrices from different works (the spider, the labyrinth) in new combinations on a single ground. The red field is not background but the assertive chromatic premise of the whole composition — everything else exists within red, is defined by red, survives against red.
This is the most formally complex and most technically ambitious print in the collection. It also tells us Sidney kept his print matrices and combined them.