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Noli-me-Tangere Packet

Stained Glass Design
1922 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stained glass design for a window with three lights depicting Mary Magdalen at the Tomb encountering Christ, disguised as a gardener, but blessing her as He identifies Himself to her, for a church at Upwell, Wisbech. Above are designs for six tracery windowpanes containing angels and scrolls in the arch of the window. The design is on a portrait format sheet of cream-coloured paper monuted on rectangular card. There is a pencil sketch of a window on the back of the mount and there are horizontal pencil lines and crosses on each side.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Noli-me-Tangere Packet (assigned by artist)
  • Upwell Wisbech
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for church at Upwell, Wisbech, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1922
Physical description
Stained glass design for a window with three lights depicting Mary Magdalen at the Tomb encountering Christ, disguised as a gardener, but blessing her as He identifies Himself to her, for a church at Upwell, Wisbech. Above are designs for six tracery windowpanes containing angels and scrolls in the arch of the window. The design is on a portrait format sheet of cream-coloured paper monuted on rectangular card. There is a pencil sketch of a window on the back of the mount and there are horizontal pencil lines and crosses on each side.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 21.1cm
  • Without mount width: 11cm
  • Mount height: 26.6cm
  • Mount width: 17.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Burlison&Grylls ' (Maker's identification; Bottom right front beneath design.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '1922' (Textual information; Top left corner of back of mount; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '3/4" scale' (Textual information; Bottom centre; Handwriting; Ink)
  • 'Mrs. R. Forestier Walker / bottles / Melk ham' (Unknown; Top back of mount.; 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.

This stained glass design is for a window for Upwell church, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.1434-2001

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2002
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