AMENDED DESCRIPTION: Henry Holiday (1839 - 1927) A large late 19th to early 20th Century cartoon for a stained glass window design, watercolour, black ink and pencil, depicting three soldiers holding staffs behind a priest in Babylonian costume holding a covered chalice, with attendant fan bearer in Egyptian dress, two recumbent lions in the foreground and a jardiniere issuing foliate stems, the paper marked top left No 2 and 6-11 in pencil, below partially obscured lettering, unsigned, height 220cm x 62cm wide. Notes: Henry Holiday was a British landscape painter, stained-glass designer, illustrator and sculptor and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite school of art. He spent a lot of time at the studios of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, where groups of artists would meet to discuss, exchange and pool ideas and the influence of Burne-Jones can be seen in his work. In 1861, Holiday accepted the job of stained glass window designer for Powell's Glass Works - after Burne-Jones had left to work for Morris & Co. During his time there he fulfilled over 300 commissions, mostly for customers in the USA. He left in 1891 to set up his own glass works in Hampstead, producing stained glass, mosaics, enamels and sacerdotal objects.