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William Tell

Panel
dated 1571 (made)
Artist/Maker
Ban, Hans Heinrich (made)
Place of origin
Zurich (made)

Clear glass roundel painted in silver stain and enamels. Depicting William Tell shooting an apple off his son's head and the arms of Joachim Lochmann and Rudich Tritt. Painted by Hans Heinrich Ban of Zurich. Swiss (Zurich), dated 1571.


Object details

Category
Stained Glass
Object type
Panel
TitleWilliam Tell (generic title)
Brief description
Clear glass roundel painted in silver stain and enamels. Depicting William Tell shooting an apple off his son's head and the arms of Joachim Lochmann and Rudich Tritt. Painted by Hans Heinrich Ban of Zurich. Swiss (Zurich), dated 1571.
Physical description
Clear glass roundel painted in silver stain and enamels. Depicting William Tell shooting an apple off his son's head and the arms of Joachim Lochmann and Rudich Tritt. Painted by Hans Heinrich Ban of Zurich. Swiss (Zurich), dated 1571.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 7 3/4in
taken from Register
Object history
Museum numbers 9048-9, 9051-6, 9061-2-1863 came from the well known collection of Johann Martin Ustein [?], poet and artist of Zurich, died 1827. After his death the whole collection of about 180 panels was sold and went to the Castle of Groditzberg in Silesia. 23 panels of this collection were sold again in 1854 to Charlottenburg and then to England. 9050, 9057-60, 9063-1863 do not seem to be from this. The rest of the Schloss Groditzberg Collection was bought in 1894 fot the new Swiss National Museum; see Catalogue by F.R. Rahn.

Hans Lehamann identified the glass painter as Hans Heinrich Ban of Zurich.
(8 April 1952) Paul Boesch confirmed this.
Bibliographic references
  • Paul Boesch, Die Zurcherscheiben im Victoria und Albert Museum in London, offprint, Zurich, 1954
  • Paul Boesch, Die Glasgemalesummlung von Johann Martin Urten (Zeitschrift fur schweizerisch Archaologie und Kunstgeschiechte, Band 14, Heft 2, 1953, p.110, item B83)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
9049:1-1863

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Record createdJanuary 25, 2008
Record URL
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