St. Swithun's Day
Panel
1910 (made)
1910 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Panel of clear glass. Roundel of similar design to C.78-1978 (lion-like dog and grotesque faces and dandelions) with red glass radiating separators and painting in black and silver stain on clear glass. Initial 'N' in place of collar. Surrounding panes of dandelions, insects and swarms of bees. The centre bottom pane with a painted 'manuscript' style decoration. A monk under a rain cloud and a frog with the text:
St. Swithun's Day, if then doth raine for fortye days it will remaine
Above this there is a pane of glass with text:
Richard Durstall Grace Weasum wedded July 10th AD 1910
St. Swithun's Day, if then doth raine for fortye days it will remaine
Above this there is a pane of glass with text:
Richard Durstall Grace Weasum wedded July 10th AD 1910
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | St. Swithun's Day (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Stained and painted glass |
| Brief description | Panel of clear and coloured glass with painted and stained decoration. Made by Ernest Heasman. English (Harpenden), dated 1910. |
| Physical description | Panel of clear glass. Roundel of similar design to C.78-1978 (lion-like dog and grotesque faces and dandelions) with red glass radiating separators and painting in black and silver stain on clear glass. Initial 'N' in place of collar. Surrounding panes of dandelions, insects and swarms of bees. The centre bottom pane with a painted 'manuscript' style decoration. A monk under a rain cloud and a frog with the text: St. Swithun's Day, if then doth raine for fortye days it will remaine Above this there is a pane of glass with text: Richard Durstall Grace Weasum wedded July 10th AD 1910 |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Richard Durstall / Grace Wensum / wedded July 10th AD 1910 / St. Swithin's Day, if then doth raine fore fortye days it will remaine' (Decoration; painted; Heasman; 1910) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs. Hilda Strickland |
| Object history | The donor, the artist's daughter, has said that this panel was hung in Donald Wippell's office at J.Wippell & Co., Exeter, as a specimen. |
| Bibliographic reference | Strikland, Hilda, 'Ernest Heasman Stained Glass Artitist,' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, vol. XV, no.2 (1973-4) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.76-1978 |
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| Record created | April 16, 1998 |
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