One of a number of studies in Birmingham's collection for the watercolour entitled 'Theophilus and the Angel'. Two versions of the painting were made, one was destroyed in the second world war (1863), the other (c.1866) was sold at Sotheby's in 2008.Within the formal surroundings of the Roman Law Courts, the Protonotary Theophilus is about to be confronted by the angel messenger sent by St Dorothea.