“The Morning of the Resurrection” (1882) is unusual amongst Burne-Jones’s finished paintings in that it takes its subject from the bible. It is true that biblical subjects took up a large portion of his time, as his rich production of stained glass designs attest, but they rarely entered his painted work. This particular painting with its tight composition based upon four rectangles, each occupied by a single figure, derives once again from a miniature in a medieval manuscript: the Shaftesbury Psalter. 30 30. Holy Women at the Tomb, The Shaftesbury Psalter, 12th Century (British Library, Lansdowne 383 f.13). (Also from the same manuscript compare Lansdowne 383 f.13v The Ascension with the Last Judgement Window (1896) at the east end of Birmingham Cathedral.)
Fitzwilliam work list. 1882 Begun a panel of Mary Magdelene at the Sepulchre. That Burne-Jones cross referenced the various media that he was working in, can be be seen in the relationship between this painting and the three light Resurrection stained glass window in All Hallows Church, Allerton of 1885 .