This ‘predella’ panel is for the lower section of one of the four lights in a stained-glass window, depicting the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel in the upper part and scenes from their lives below in the north nave of Jesus College Chapel. The figures and scenes in this window were all by Burne-Jones, the prophets having originally been designed for a window in the east end of the north aisle of St Eustachius the Martyr, Tavistock, Devon (1875-76) where they appear in the middle tier.
Morris & Company’s eleven windows (1872-78) in the nave and transept of Jesus College Chapel, designed largely by Burne-Jones and Morris, are among the firm’s most spectacular commissions for stained glass. Burne-Jones’s Account Book (June 1877) records his charge of £10 for this cartoon.
The cartoon was subsequently used at All Hallows, Allerton, Liverpool (1879) and St. Stephen’s, Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland (1914).
