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Woolwich Garrison Ch.

Stained Glass Design
1917-1925 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a single light window with three internal roundels at Woolwich Garrison Church. The top one possibly depicts St. George riding a white charger. The middle one depicts the Archangel Gabriel before the kneeling siant. The bottom roundel depicts figures bearing a huge bunch of grapes. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper and attached to a cream-coloured rectangular support. There is a cream-coloured card frame around the design which is grey on the back. It is taped to a cream-coloured back of support.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWoolwich Garrison Ch. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour with gum arabic on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for Woolwich Garrison church, by John Clement Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1917-1925
Physical description
Design for a single light window with three internal roundels at Woolwich Garrison Church. The top one possibly depicts St. George riding a white charger. The middle one depicts the Archangel Gabriel before the kneeling siant. The bottom roundel depicts figures bearing a huge bunch of grapes. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper and attached to a cream-coloured rectangular support. There is a cream-coloured card frame around the design which is grey on the back. It is taped to a cream-coloured back of support.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 16.7cm
  • Without mount width: 9.2cm
  • Framed height: 28.4cm
  • Framed width: 20.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'John Clement Bell FMGP' (Signature; Top of back of mount.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'B.WW. SCALE 3/4"' (Signature; Top left of front of design; Handwriting; Ink)
  • 'POSTQUAM IN AVRES MULTITUDINUS VOX SONITUSQUE INCREPUIT MVRI ILLICO CORRVERUNT' (Textual information; Around top roundel in design.; Typography; Ink)
  • 'QUI APPELATUS EST NERELSGOL ID EST FORRENS BOTRI EO QUOD BDIRV PORTASSENI INDE HUC ISRAEL' (Textual information; Latin; Around the bottom roundel 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.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
Collection
Accession number
E.1443-2001

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Record createdFebruary 8, 2002
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