The theme of Souls being received in to Paradise occurs in a number of designs and sketches, - Secret Book of Designs and Kelmscott Press: The Golden Legend. The subject was made as a design for stained glass in St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta in 1874, however the present design, made twenty years later has been mistaken as being for that project. This design was executed as part of the tender for the projected redecoration of St Paul's Cathedral London in the 1890s which was actually won by William Blake Richmond (1842-1941). A preliminary chalk study exists in The Huntington Library Collection Acc. no 2000.5.1564
Executed about 1892-3, the figures relate to William Morris's edition of The Golden Legend, in which Angels welcome souls into heaven.