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A study for a design in Birmingham's collection for stained glass in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Also used by Morris and Co. in a two-light window in Langham, Norfolk in 1898. The figure in profile is the one used in the preliminary designs for Hope and in the final cartoon as well.

  • Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
E.B.J./hope (centre middle and bottom right)
- - Handwritten - Sepia ink . Not in the artist's hand
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p. 147
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 87

Associated places

Name Type
Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge Made for
Langham Church, Norfolk Made for

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