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. This is the only study of the body of St Dorothea among the group of drawings in Birmingham's collection. In the finished 1863 watercolour the head is covered with a veil, and most of the body is hidden by the figures of the mourners.