Woolwich Garrison Ch.
Stained Glass Design
1917-1925 (designed)
1917-1925 (designed)
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Design for a single light window with three internal roundels at Woolwich Garrison Church. The top one possibly depicts St. George riding a white charger. The middle one depicts the Archangel Gabriel before the kneeling siant. The bottom roundel depicts figures bearing a huge bunch of grapes. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper and attached to a cream-coloured rectangular support. There is a cream-coloured card frame around the design which is grey on the back. It is taped to a cream-coloured back of support.
Object details
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| Title | Woolwich Garrison Ch. (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour with gum arabic on wove paper, mounted on card |
| Brief description | Stained glass design for Woolwich Garrison church, by John Clement Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1917-1925 |
| Physical description | Design for a single light window with three internal roundels at Woolwich Garrison Church. The top one possibly depicts St. George riding a white charger. The middle one depicts the Archangel Gabriel before the kneeling siant. The bottom roundel depicts figures bearing a huge bunch of grapes. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on paper and attached to a cream-coloured rectangular support. There is a cream-coloured card frame around the design which is grey on the back. It is taped to a cream-coloured back of support. |
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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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass', London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, pp.76 -77.
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| Accession number | E.1443-2001 |
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| Record created | February 8, 2002 |
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