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Stained Glass Design

1870 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a stained glass window with three lights showing scenes from the life of St. Edmund. The first light on the left is mainly in pen and ink over preliminary pencil with parts of the tracery above the scene of St. Edmund teaching painted in cherry red, blue, ochre and green watercolour. Details along the side and bottom are picked out in yellow ochre. The central light showing a vision of the saint's mother appearing with a halo and looking like the Virgin Mary is the most coloured of the three lights. It is painted all over in watercolour. The right-hand light shows St. Edmund standing high above kneeling or seated soldiers in armour, he raises a crucifix high above his head. The tracery above is painted in watercolours as in the light in the far left. Details along the side and bottom are picked out in yellow ochre. The design is drawn onto a piece of cream-coloured paper shaped like a single lancet window.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink over preliminary pencil and watercolour on paper
Brief description
Design for a stained glass window for St. Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, Hertfordshire, showing scenes from the life of St. Edmund. Pen and ink, water-colour and pencil drawing probably by John Hardman Powell, 1870.
Physical description
Design for a stained glass window with three lights showing scenes from the life of St. Edmund. The first light on the left is mainly in pen and ink over preliminary pencil with parts of the tracery above the scene of St. Edmund teaching painted in cherry red, blue, ochre and green watercolour. Details along the side and bottom are picked out in yellow ochre. The central light showing a vision of the saint's mother appearing with a halo and looking like the Virgin Mary is the most coloured of the three lights. It is painted all over in watercolour. The right-hand light shows St. Edmund standing high above kneeling or seated soldiers in armour, he raises a crucifix high above his head. The tracery above is painted in watercolours as in the light in the far left. Details along the side and bottom are picked out in yellow ochre. The design is drawn onto a piece of cream-coloured paper shaped like a single lancet window.
Dimensions
  • Height: 53.7cm
  • Width: 21.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'teaching mathematics / Vision of his mother / Preaches the Crusade' (Inscribed by the artist in pen and ink below each light)
  • 'St. Edmund's Coll., Old Hall' (Inscribed by the artist in pen and ink below the inscriptions beneath each light.)
  • '1870' (In pencil between two horizontal parallel lines also in pencil.)
  • 'jhardman & Coy.' (Blind-stamped in centre near the top of the design.)
Credit line
Given by the John Hardman Studios
Object history
The design was produced for a stained glass window for St. Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, Hertfordshire. The window, for which this drawing is a design, was produced by John Hardman & Co.
Historical context
The College chapel was added by A. W. N. Pugin.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.1325-1963

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Record createdAugust 9, 2005
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