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Saint Alban

Stained Glass Design
1917-1925 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The design for stained glass depicts a single window light with a figure representing St. Alban dressed in armour and holding a sword aloft. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on a rectangular sheet of cream-coloured paper mounted on a rectangular sheet of card.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSaint Alban (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design depicting St Alban, pen and ink and watercolour, by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, England, 1917-1925
Physical description
The design for stained glass depicts a single window light with a figure representing St. Alban dressed in armour and holding a sword aloft. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on a rectangular sheet of cream-coloured paper mounted on a rectangular sheet of card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 29.6cm
  • Without mount width: 6.5cm
  • Mount height: 30.8cm
  • Mount width: 7.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'SAINT ALBAN' (Textual information; Beneath the feet of the saint.; Typography; Watercolour)
  • 'HEATON, BUTLER & BAYNE. / 14 GARRICK ST. LONDON.' (Maker's identification; Bottom centre; intaglio printing; blind-stamped)
  • '8429' [crossed out] / '1" scale / 8833' (Textual information; Bottom left and right.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • 'White letter on / Black ground' (Textual information; Beneath the design.; Handwriting; Pencil.)
Credit line
Given by The Ashmolean Museum from the estate of the late Brian Miller
Object history
This stained glass design (one of 32) was in the collection of the late B.D.H. Miller who bequeathed them to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Timothy Wilson, Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum gave them to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The designs were lot 320 in the sale of the contents of Towne Furlong Farm, Phillips, Oxford, sales catalogue, Thursday, 13 June 1991.
Bibliographic reference
Bayne, Simone Berthe Marthe 'Heaton, Butler & Bayne: Un Siecle d'Art du Vitrail. A Hundred Years of the Art of Stained Glass', Mrs S.B.M. Bayne, 1986.
Collection
Accession number
E.1462-2001

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Record createdDecember 17, 2001
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