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St. John Bapt..

Stained Glass Design
1923 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a single light window depicting St. John the Baptist beneath a Gothic canopy on a cream-coloured sheet of paper which is not backed onto card. There is a dark grey card frame around the design which is taped to the back of the design itself. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour.


Object details

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Object type
TitleSt. John Bapt.. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour and gum arabic on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design depicting St John the Baptist, by John Clement Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1923
Physical description
Design for a single light window depicting St. John the Baptist beneath a Gothic canopy on a cream-coloured sheet of paper which is not backed onto card. There is a dark grey card frame around the design which is taped to the back of the design itself. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 26.4cm
  • Without mount width: 8cm
  • Framed height: 32.4cm
  • Framed width: 15.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'John Clement Bell for Clayton & Bell' (Signature; Top of back of mount.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'JCB' (Signature; Top of back of sheet of paper.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'IN LOVING MEMORY OF HENRY BAYARD McCOY. / DATE MISSING +SEPTEMBER 29.1923' (Textual information; Bottom of 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.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
Collection
Accession number
E.1455-2001

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Record createdFebruary 7, 2002
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