This is a reversed image of the figure of St. John the Evangelist used by Burne-Jones for several stained-glass window commissions. Burne-Jones received commissions for this window from R. Murdock Esq., and completed it in May 1893. The window, in memory of David Laidlaw, was installed in the North Church, Wemyss Bay, Renfrewshire. Sotheby's 2007
The figure was first designed in 1869 for the Savoy Chapel, Westminster.