St. John Bapt..
Stained Glass Design
1923 (designed)
1923 (designed)
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Design for a single light window depicting St. John the Baptist beneath a Gothic canopy on a cream-coloured sheet of paper which is not backed onto card. There is a dark grey card frame around the design which is taped to the back of the design itself. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour.
Object details
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| Title | St. John Bapt.. (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour and gum arabic on wove paper, mounted on card |
| Brief description | Stained glass design depicting St John the Baptist, by John Clement Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1923 |
| Physical description | Design for a single light window depicting St. John the Baptist beneath a Gothic canopy on a cream-coloured sheet of paper which is not backed onto card. There is a dark grey card frame around the design which is taped to the back of the design itself. Drawn in pen and ink and watercolour. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
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| Accession number | E.1455-2001 |
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| Record created | February 7, 2002 |
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