While he was still an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones met and formed a life-long friendship with William Morris (1834–1896) who went on to establish the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain. By the 1870s, Burne-Jones and Morris were collaborating on a series of stained-glass designs in churches around the country. The design of this vibrant fresco was based on the left-hand light of the east window of St George’s Chapel, Christ Church, Oxford, designed by Burne-Jones and crafted by William Morris in 1875. An identical graphite study by Burne-Jones, An Angel with Palm and Lyre (c.1874) survives at the Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California. The design was repeated for the south window of the south transept of St Catherine, Baglan, in 1880. The present work is dated 1881 in the 1882 inventory of William Graham’s collection.¹