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Record Drawing of Stained Glass

1926-1929 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour copy of two pieces of stained glass, both depicting the Crucifixion, one in a quatrefoil and the other in an octofoil. There are notes, sketches and annotations around and below the drawings.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour copy of a stained glass window from Wells Cathedral, Somerset, Archibald Standish Hartrick, Great Britain, 1926-1929
Physical description
Watercolour copy of two pieces of stained glass, both depicting the Crucifixion, one in a quatrefoil and the other in an octofoil. There are notes, sketches and annotations around and below the drawings.
Dimensions
  • Quatrefoil height: 6.5in
  • Quatrefoil width: 6.125in
  • Octofoil height: 7in
  • Octofoil width: 4in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Marks and inscriptions
  • A.S.H. (quatrefoil signed in ink)
  • Very English in its daring use of large leaf pattern in background. Much injured. The figures in all these crucifixions in Wells Cathedral are elongated - arranged in Byzantine S formula, but beginning to show strong signs of realism in treatment - as much as in the leaves here and plant fronds in tracery of Lady Chapel. (under quatrefoil)
  • It seems to have been re-leaded and cleaned since I last saw it in 1926, formerly it was very dirty. I could not make out lettering on scroll. (under octofoil)
Object history
The panels of stained glass from which these copies were taken are in Wells Cathedral, Somerset, and date from the 14th century. The quatrefoil is from the tracery in the north aisle of the choir, and the octofoil is from the tracery in the south aisle.
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection
Accession number
E.711-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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