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Giggleswick School Chapel Rose window

Stained Glass Design
1901 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a rose window at Giggleswick School Chapel, including numerous small designs for tracery panels of stained glass depicting Adam and Eve and a variety of animals destined for Noah's Arc. The designs are in reserves, outlined in pen and ink, on a large, circular piece of cream-coloured paper stuck onto a cream-coloured card mount.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGiggleswick School Chapel Rose window (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for a rose window at Giggleswick School Chapel, pen and ink and watercolour mounted on card, England 1901
Physical description
Design for a rose window at Giggleswick School Chapel, including numerous small designs for tracery panels of stained glass depicting Adam and Eve and a variety of animals destined for Noah's Arc. The designs are in reserves, outlined in pen and ink, on a large, circular piece of cream-coloured paper stuck onto a cream-coloured card mount.
Dimensions
  • Including mount height: 32.2cm
  • Including mount width: 32.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '3/4" Scale' (Textual information; Back of mount.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • '1901' (Textual information; Top right corner; Handwriting; 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.

This design is for a rose window for Giggleswick School Chapel, Yorkshire.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.1445-2001

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Record createdMarch 20, 2002
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