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Manchester. Victoria Park

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

Design for stained glass at Victoria Park, Manchester. A single light depicting a cleric in red and black robes drawn in pen and ink and painted in watercolour and mounted onto small, rectangular pieces of card.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleManchester. Victoria Park (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for church in Victoria Park, Manchester, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1917
Physical description
Design for stained glass at Victoria Park, Manchester. A single light depicting a cleric in red and black robes drawn in pen and ink and painted in watercolour and mounted onto small, rectangular pieces of card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 12.9cm
  • Without mount width: 4.4cm
  • Mount height: 20cm
  • Mount width: 11.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Burlison & Glls' (Signature; Bottom right; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '1917 / Folio / x' (Textual information; Top left, centre and right.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '"3/4 Scale' (Textual information; Left side; Handwriting; Ink)
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.

This design is for a window in a church in Victoria Park, Manchester.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass'. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.1433-2001

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Record createdDecember 17, 2001
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