Christ Blessing Little Children

Michael Frederick Halliday

1863

Stained-glass window for All Saints, Brightwalton.l

Image courtesy of Alastair Carew-Cox, Angels & Icons

This is a detail of women and children for the stained-glass window to the left of the three-light window of Christ Blessing Little Children at All Saints, Brightwalton, Berkshire, a church designed by George Edmund Street. Bill Waters describes this window as: “An unusual handling of the subject not based on previous iconography, it is conceived as a loosely medieval Pre-Raphaelite costume piece similar to a painting by Holman Hunt” (Angels & Icons, 140). — Dennis T. Lanigan

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