Inscribed with colour notes Virgin in a gold coat... desk bead(?) with brown (Angel) Red wings red coat white hand (Angel) Dark brown green cloak saffron lining lake coat Dark brown .... (?) same coloured cloak vermillion ...(?) The subject is the Arming of St George and this was used as the basis for a similar subject, the first in the Story of St George, which was used in a preparatory drawing for a stained glass window c 1866. which was not executed, in the St George's Hall Liverpool. (See William Morris Catalogue to the exhibition held at the V&A in 1996, p 111)