The Eternal
Stained Glass Design
2003-2004 (designed)
2003-2004 (designed)
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This is a design in pencil for a stained glass panel by Ruth Taylor Jacobson for the Jewish part of the Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Gallery in the V&A. It is a preliminary design without colour.
Object details
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| Title | The Eternal (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil on cream-coloured wove paper |
| Brief description | Design in pencil depicting a stag at bottom left, a rearing lion at bottom right, above which is a vision of Jerusalem and a mother eagle feeding its young. The drawing has a strong upwards and zig-zagging thrust. |
| Physical description | A design in pencil on a rectangular sheet of thick, cream-coloured, wove paper. The design is figurative and shows a stag with antlers at the bottom left and a rearing lion at bottom right, with two eagles at the top above a roundel showing a vision of Jerusalem. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Ruled pencil lines creating a rectangle, with several measurement marks around it, and a longer ruled line on each side, running from the top to bottom vertically. Possibly an abandoned preliminary lay-out for a drawing. |
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| Summary | This is a design in pencil for a stained glass panel by Ruth Taylor Jacobson for the Jewish part of the Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Gallery in the V&A. It is a preliminary design without colour. |
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| Accession number | E.537-2005 |
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| Record created | September 20, 2005 |
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