Highly finished design, in water colour and gold on red ground. Full length nude figure of Charity, facing, flames issuing from her heart and breast.
Mrs Percy Wyndham was an accomplished enamelist and embroideress to whom Burne-Jones supplied designs. the present drawing is likely to have been a design for her to work. As such it is a product of the Studio made by an assistant from an existing pencil drawing with small additions by the Master, it reflects the competence of the Studio which employed at this time highly accomplished artists including J. M. Strudwick, Francis Laythrop as well as T. M. Rooke. It is a re-use of the design made for the west window in the Calcutta Cathedral (1874). ( A later use of the design for St Cuthbert's Church, Newcastle is now in the café at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (1896))