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Tullie House Museum : 1922.45.3
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Drawing, black chalk, Angel with Scroll, cartoon for stained glass at St Martin's Church, Brampton, Cumberland, by Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones, The Grange, Kensington, London, England, 1880.
Full size drawing of an angel with outstretched wings, facing right, the flame of the Holy Spirit issuing from her forehead. She holds a lengthy scroll. Burne Jones designed five angels with scrolls for the middle tier of the window. In the actual window the angels' scrolls are inscribed with verses from the twenty third psalm. One of 15 figures designed for the 5 light East window at St Martin's Church, Brampton. This figure was designed for the central tier of the 2nd light. All the figures were designed specifically for Brampton but were subsequently much repeated
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Brampton No 7
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