Inscribed recto top right: "angels for the foot of the crucifixion for Aymington" Inscribed verso in a later hand: "St Editha’s Amington Staffs East Window 1864" The figures have been overworked for transfer, possibly by Burne-Jones himself. An image of the complete East Window, showing the two angels at the foot of the cross is reproduced in A. Charles Sewter’s "The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle" (1974) plate 169. A cartoon of the crucified Christ is in the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. An entry for February 1865 in Burne-Jones’s Account Book with Morris and Company (Vol.I (1861-1882)) records "Angels to Crucifixion", which the annotated checklist (The Journal of Stained Glass - Vol. XXXV no. 93 p. 194) describes as "Four Weeping Angels, cartoon to replace those in Amington Crucifixion" cartoon untraced. As these already feature within the WMG cartoon (produced in January 1864), it may be that the reference pertains to the present drawing instead.
The heavier outlines probably reinforced in the MMF&Co workshop. These two Angels were replaced in a similar Crucifixion in St Edmund Hall Chapel, Oxford Feb 1865 (from Douglas E Schoenherr).