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Stained Glass Design

1917-1925 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Clayton & Bell (manufacturers)
Bell, Reginald Otto (designer)
Place of origin
London (designed)

Stained glass design, in watercolour, for a window with three lights depicting figures personifying the virtues of 'Faith', 'Valiant' (sic) and 'Love'. The central light is taller than the two which flank it. The designs drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted on a small piece of rectangular, cream-coloured card.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Stained Glass
Object type
Stained glass design
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Ink
Watercolour
Wove Paper
Painting
Drawing
Brief description
Stained glass design depicting 'Faith' and 'Love', by Reginald Otto Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1917-1925
Physical description
Stained glass design, in watercolour, for a window with three lights depicting figures personifying the virtues of 'Faith', 'Valiant' (sic) and 'Love'. The central light is taller than the two which flank it. The designs drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted on a small piece of rectangular, cream-coloured card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 25.2cm
  • Without mount width: 14.1cm
  • Mount height: 27.6cm
  • Mount width: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Reginald Otto Bell' (Signature; Back of mount on top left.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'PLEASE RETURN TO :- / ROBERT L. BALDWIN / ARTHUR LUCAS. / 93 WHITTON AVENUE / GREENFORD / MIDDX.' (Textual information; Back of mount; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'RB' (Signature; Top right corner of back of mount.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • '13' (Textual information; Bottom left margin of mount beneath design.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'FAITH / Blest is he who hath faith / VALIANT / You will have rest for all your toil / LOVE / They that love his name shall dwell there' (Textual information; On each window light in the design.; typography; ink)
Credit line
Given by The Ashmolean Museum from the estate of the late Brian Miller
Object history
This stained glass design, (one of 32) was in the collection of the late B.D.H. Miller who bequeathed them to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Timothy Wilson, Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum gave them to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The designs were lot 320 in the sale of the contents of Towne Furlong Farm, Phillips, Oxford, sales catalogue, Thursday, 13 June 1991.
Subjects depicted
Faith
Love
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1451-2001

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O64069/stained-glass-design-bell-reginald-otto/
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