Cartoon for 'Good Shepherd' stained glass, Flockton, Yorkshire

This delicate pencil design features Jesus as ‘The Good Shepherd’, wearing a crown of thorns and carrying a crook, surrounded by his flock, and was drawn by Ford Madox Brown, artist and associate of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and an original founding partner of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. It is a full-size cartoon: a working drawing not intended for display, but used in the production of stained glass windows to guide the artisan in the cutting and shaping of each section of glass. The drawing would commonly be attached to a board or table with the glass laid on top, and as a result, many of these cartoons bear the marks, folds, pinpricks and tears of this process. The finished window can still be seen in St James’ Parish Church, Flockton, Yorkshire, alongside windows by Edward Burne-Jones and Philip Webb and a pulpit decorated in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.