St Theophilus and the Angel - Study for St Theophilus1863 – 1867 Accession number: 1904P163 Pencil and red-brown chalk on cream laid paper. Width: 176 mm Height: 317 mm InformationOne of a number of studies in Birmingham's collection for the watercolour entitled 'Theophilus and the Angel'. Two versions of the painting were made, one was destroyed in the second world war (1863), the other (c.1866) was sold at Sotheby's in 2008.Within the formal surroundings of the Roman Law Courts, the Protonotary Theophilus is about to be confronted by the angel messenger sent by St Dorothea.
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