Inscribed: No. 1 ... for all the patterns and made larger ... all must be ... finished in that way ... and the ... gown Wings light pink and White dress shielded with flesh - nimbus full R censer gold flesh ... No leave out sandals Feet to touch it this line is the upper edge of the screen (?) Jesus No 1 top row Seraph A Censer ... bright red rays
In 1864-65, George Wardle, spent some time making copies of medieval artifacts in East Anglia. He showed them to William Morris which resulted in him being employed by the Firm. Among them were watercolours of the figures of the Archangels painted on the rood screen in St Michael and All Angels, Barton Turf, Norfolk. (These watercolours are now deposited in the Victoria and Albert Museum Acc no E1400-1411). Burne-Jones must have had these brought to his attention when he was commissioned to design the series of Angels and Archangels (The Nine Orders of Angels, The Angels of the Hierarchy) in the South transept five light window of Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge in 1873. Burne-Jones followed the iconography almost exactly.