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Panel
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born 1828 - died 1882 - Enlarge image
Panel
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (made)
- Date:
ca. 1862 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born 1828 - died 1882 (designer)
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (maker) - Materials and Techniques:
Clear, flashed and coloured glass, painted with brown enamel and yellow stain
- Museum number:
C.316-1927
- Gallery location:
British Galleries, room 125f, case WN
Object Type
The firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. was founded in 1861 and dedicated much energy to making stained glass for secular use. This panel, the second of six relating the legend of St George and the Dragon, depicts 'How ... word came to the King of Egypt touching a Dragon that ate much folk...'. The series was believed to have been made to decorate windows at Harden Hall in Bingley, West Yorkshire. Morris & Co. soon built up an extensive repertoire of designs which could be reproduced or adapted for new commissions. At least one other version of the series is know to survive in a house in Cragside, Northumberland.
People
This series was designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Following his preoccupations with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he came into contact with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in 1856. They shared an enthusiasm for the legendary past and expressed it in narrative cycles such as this. Rossetti produced considerably fewer cartoons for stained-glass windows than others in the group, and his interest in the medium died out after a few years.
Subjects Depicted
The choice of a saintly history for a domestic glazing scheme was not unusual in the work of Morris & Co. Such leanings towards religious subject-matter were perhaps an inevitable consequence of the group's ambition to emulate the style of Medieval stained glass.
