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Design for a 3-light window

Stained Glass Design
ca.1950 (made)
Artist/Maker

General Description: Design for a 3-light east window for the Lady Chapel of St. John's Church, Putney, depicting scenes of the Nativity,c.1950. Lettered in black ink EAST WINDOW of LADY CHAPEL SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH PUTNEY M.E.ALDRICH ROPE Inscribed in pencil on the back M.E. Aldrich Rope 81 A Deodar Rd S.W.15 and in ball-point pen with names of the saints and biblical scenes represented in the design.


Object details

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Object type
TitleDesign for a 3-light window
Brief description
Design for stained glass by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope, ca.1950
Physical description
General Description: Design for a 3-light east window for the Lady Chapel of St. John's Church, Putney, depicting scenes of the Nativity,c.1950. Lettered in black ink EAST WINDOW of LADY CHAPEL SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH PUTNEY M.E.ALDRICH ROPE Inscribed in pencil on the back M.E. Aldrich Rope 81 A Deodar Rd S.W.15 and in ball-point pen with names of the saints and biblical scenes represented in the design.
Dimensions
  • Irregular height: 49.2cm
  • Irregular width: 25.3cm
Irregular 49.2 x 25.3 cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs Mary Nottingham, the niece of the artist
Object history
Exhibitions: See E.228-1990
Production
Stained glass
Bibliographic reference
Obituary of M.E.A. Rope in The Journal of Stained Glass Vol XVIII No.3, 1988, 319-320. Peter Cormack, Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Catalogue of an exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, London, 1985), pp 24-25, L3, L13, L14, L15
Collection
Accession number
E.231-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
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