Pharaoh's Daughter Finding Moses
detail from The Ascension with the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Resurrection
1869 Three-light window. Three main scenes depict (from left to right) Mary and Joseph with the infant Christ adored by shepherds with angels above; Christ ascending with angels and four disciples clustered together below; the risen Christ holding a cross with soldiers below and angels above. Further panels below each scene depict (left to right) Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, the ascension of Elijah and Elijah raising the widow's son.technique: stained glass firm/studio: James Powell & Sons designer: Harry Ellis Wooldridge Church of St Mary, Derwen, Denbighshire south wall of the chancel Given by Robert Wynn in memory of his parents in 1869. |
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- adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present [Luke 2:16]
- angels
- Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers
- Elijah hands the revived boy over to his mother, the widow of Zarephath [1 Kings 17:23-24]
- the Ascension [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]
- the ascension of Elijah: a chariot, horses of fire and a whirlwind appear and Elijah is carried up into heaven; Elijah's cloak falls (or he hands it over to Elisha) [2 Kings 2:1-18]
- the finding of Moses: Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe with her maidens in the river and discovers the child floating on the water [Exodus 2:5-6]
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Further reading
William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), p. 262.
ReferencesMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 124.
D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. II, p. 72.
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