One of a set of six windows originally in St. Margaret's, Great Barr, before the rebuilding of the church in 1862. The windows represent the seven cardinal Virtues, and are based on oil paintings produced by Sir Joshua Reynolds as designs for windows at New College, Oxford. This set was commissioned c.1816 by Sir Joseph Scott of Great Barr. Only six virtues rather than the full seven were commissioned, since the windows joined an existing East window installed by Francis Eginton in 1801, which showed the soul of Sir Joseph's infant daughter being carried to heaven, and which was considered already to represent the virtue of Hope.

These windows are rare survivals of glass painted in the pictorial tradition which dominated English stained glass during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in which the whole window is painted in translucent enamel, with no use of leading or coloured pot metal glass. Most such windows were removed or destroyed by Gothic Revivalists, and the survival of this set is entirely due to good luck. After removal from the church, they were stored in a malthouse for nearly 40 years until finally presented to the Museum in 1900 by Sir Francis Scott