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Driffield

Stained Glass Design
1913 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stained glass design, in watercolour, depicting a window with two lights above which are designs for tracery shapes, for Driffield church, Gloucestershire. St. Joseph bearing the Child Jesus is depicted in the right window light on a portrait format sheet of cream-coloured paper mounted on rectangular card.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDriffield (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for church at Driffield, Gloucestershire, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1913
Physical description
Stained glass design, in watercolour, depicting a window with two lights above which are designs for tracery shapes, for Driffield church, Gloucestershire. St. Joseph bearing the Child Jesus is depicted in the right window light on a portrait format sheet of cream-coloured paper mounted on rectangular card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 17.5cm
  • Without mount width: 7.8cm
  • Mount height: 24.8cm
  • Mount width: 15.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '36, GREAT ORMOND ST. / LONDON / BURLISON / AND /GRYLLS' (Maker's identification; Top left of centre.; Stamped; ink)
  • 'Burlison&Grylls ' (Maker's identification; Bottom right front beneath design.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '1913 / Packet / Presentations & Disputations' (Top left and right corners and centre; Handwriting; Ink)
  • 'Driffield / Scale 3/4 inch = 1 foot' (Textual information; Back left of mount; 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 a window for Driffield church, Gloucestershire.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.1438-2001

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Record createdDecember 17, 2001
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