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The Moses Window

The window was probably made in Holiday’s very own glassworks in Church Row, Hampstead, which he owned from 1891.
The scene shows Moses leaving the extravagant court of the Egyptian Pharaoh down a staircase to be with his Jewish community. As the inscription says, “By faith Moses refuses to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season”.
It was made as a tribute to Sir Henry Manisty (1808-1890), who studied at Durham School and went on to become a High Court Judge. It is also dedicated to his second wife Mary Ann who died in 1893.

The window is a superb example of Victorian Pre-Raphaelite art. Its dazzling details, slight distortion, and striking figures suggest late medieval design.
Holiday was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a movement of artists, poets, and art critics. He was close friends with William Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Morris. Holiday was also the illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

Henry Holiday was a socialist and along with his wife Kate and daughter Winifred Raven Holiday (1866-1949), was a great supporter of the Suffragette movement.
The family was friends with Suffragette leaders Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhurst’s daughter, and Myra Sadd Brown. They even organised suffragette gatherings in their home area, the Lake District.
Winifred was a member of the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and campaigned against force-feeding suffragettes. In 1914, she wrote a booklet for the NCSWS named Women under a Liberal Government, 1906-1914.