“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.)
Inscribed lower left "IN MEMORIUM LL EASTER 1886"