Praising Angel

MORRIS AND COMPANY STAINED GLASS

Praising Angel.

Stained-glass panel designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Bt. (1833-1898) and made by Morris & Company in 1902.

This is one of ‘4 colossal and sublime figures of Angels’ originally designed by Burne-Jones in 1878 for a Morris & Co. window in Salisbury Cathedral. The same figures were adapted for several later windows made by the firm, e.g. at Painswick (1898), Montreal (1901) and Burton-on-Trent (1919), and also for the Angeli Laudantes and Angeli Ministrantes tapestries, of which examples are at Eton College and the Victoria & Albert Museum. This 1902 version was part of a window commissioned by George MacCulloch, an Australian mining magnate, for his London home at 184 Queen’s Gate, Kensington. It was purchased by the William Morris Gallery in 1994, with the aid of the Gallery’s Friends.