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North Runction

Stained Glass Design
1921 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stained glass design for North Runction church, in watercolour, depicting a figure of the virgin annunciate in a pink robe and white mantle holding a palm frond. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted onto a small piece of rectangular card.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleNorth Runction (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for North Runction church, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1921
Physical description
Stained glass design for North Runction church, in watercolour, depicting a figure of the virgin annunciate in a pink robe and white mantle holding a palm frond. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted onto a small piece of rectangular card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 14.5cm
  • Without mount width: 8.3cm
  • Mount height: 21.3cm
  • Mount width: 15.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ' * 36, GREAT ORMOND ST. * / LONDON W.C. / BURLISON / AND /GRYLLS' (Maker's identification; Top left of centre.; Stamped; ink)
  • 'F / 1921' (Textual information; Top left; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '3/4 " SCALE' (Textual information; Centre right; 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 stained glass design is for North Runcton church.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.1441-2001

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Record createdDecember 17, 2001
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