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Malvern Link West

Stained Glass Design
1906 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stained glass design for Malvern Link West window, in watercolour, depicting the Pentecost. The design for the window frame is painted in black watercolour and cut out and superimposed onto the design for the stained glass itself. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted onto a small piece of rectangular card a large portion of the bottom of which is broken off.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMalvern Link West (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design for Malvern Link West window, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1906
Physical description
Stained glass design for Malvern Link West window, in watercolour, depicting the Pentecost. The design for the window frame is painted in black watercolour and cut out and superimposed onto the design for the stained glass itself. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted onto a small piece of rectangular card a large portion of the bottom of which is broken off.
Dimensions
  • Without mount height: 34.3cm
  • Without mount width: 10.9cm
  • Mount height: 39.3cm
  • Mount width: 18.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Approved / HW febr 16 / 19[illegible inscription]5 / Burlis' (Textual information; Beneath the design on the margin of mount.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '23, NEWM / LOND / BURL / A / GRY' (Maker's identification; Top right corner of back of mount.; Stamped; Ink)
  • '1906 / * x / Malvern Link / West / Scale 3/4'' (Textual information; Top left and right corner of back 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 the west window of Malvern Link church. Another design for this window is E.1432-2001.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Accession number
E.1453-2001

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2002
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