Stained glass design for St. Martin's Parish Church, Brighouse, Yorkshire. The window is on the north aisle.
The design was used again after Morris and Burne Jones' death in St Rule Monifieth 1902, St Lawrence, Warslow 1909 and St Peter, Alverscot 1910. See note for Christ Stilling the Waves
Inscribed "BRIGHOUSE/The Sower No. 1 S.P.252, and with a further inscription on a label "No1. "The Sower". One of a pair of cartoons/designed by the late Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Bart./ Reproduced in stained glass for "St Marrtins'/Church, Brighouse, Yorks. by Morris & Company,/ Merton Abbey Works, Surrey, in the year 1896" As the inscriptions on the back indicate, this and lot 80 (Christ Stilling the Waves, Cartoon for St. Martin's Parish Church, Brighouse, Yorkshire) are cartoons for lights in a window at the east end of the north aisle in the church of St. martin, Brighouse, Yorkshire. The window, which consists of two tall lancets with tracery, was made at two different periods. Subjects at the top and bottom of the lights were executed by the Morris firm in 1874, Burne-Jones providing the cartoons. The present two subjects, which form the middle panels of the lancets, were added in 1897 after a gallery, which had formerly obscured this portion, was removed. The cartoons are entered in Burne-Jones's account book (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) under october 1896 ("Brighouse (2) Sower & Calming the Sea £40), and the names of the glass-painters are known (see A. C. Sewter, The Stained Galss of William Morris and his Circle, II, 1975, p. 32). The designs are in that late "abstract" style of Burne-Jones which, perhaps more than any other, explains his appeal to artists like Picasso and Wyndham Lewis. Christie's 1992