The Parable of the Vineyard: The Letting of the Vineyard to the Husbandmen

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861

Bibliography

◦ Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, 66-68.

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 82 (no. 134).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the second of the series of seven designs that DGR made for a set of stained glass windows to be manufactured by “The Firm”, that is to say, the partnership of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. founded in April 1861. (See commentary for The Parable of the Vineyard: The Planting of the Vine.)

Literary

Based on Matthew 20: 1-16 .

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