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Stained Glass Design

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

Stained glass design, in watercolour, for a window, with a single light, depicting the Archangel Gabriel holding a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted on a small piece of rectangular, cream-coloured card.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and gum arabic on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design depicting an archangel, by Reginald Otto Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1917-1925
Physical description
Stained glass design, in watercolour, for a window, with a single light, depicting the Archangel Gabriel holding a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted on a small piece of rectangular, cream-coloured card.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 34.3cm
  • Without mount width: 11.9cm
  • Mount height: 40.8cm
  • Mount width: 17.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Reginald Otto Bell / RB' (Signature; Back of mount, top centre and top right corner.; 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.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
Collection
Accession number
E.1452-2001

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2002
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