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Twywell

Stained Glass Design
1920 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Burlison & Grylls (manufacturers)
Place of origin
London (designed)

Design of two window lights each containing a soldier in armour resting on a spear under a Gothic canopy, for Twywell church, North Northamptonshire. The designs are drawn in pen and ink and painted in watercolour on a narrow sheet of cream-coloured paper attached to a cream-coloured rectangular mount.

Object details

Categories
Stained Glass
Designs
Object type
Stained glass design
TitleTwywell (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper, mounted on card
Watercolour
Ink
Pencil
Painting
Drawing
Brief description
Stained glass design for church at Twywell, North Northamptonshire, pen and ink mounted on card, Burlison & Grylls, England, 1920
Physical description
Design of two window lights each containing a soldier in armour resting on a spear under a Gothic canopy, for Twywell church, North Northamptonshire. The designs are drawn in pen and ink and painted in watercolour on a narrow sheet of cream-coloured paper attached to a cream-coloured rectangular mount.
Dimensions
  • Including mount height: 27.5cm
  • Including mount width: 18.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Burlison & Gylls' (Signature; Bottom right front; Handwriting; Ink)
  • 'The Lord / shall rule / over you.' (Textual information; Left side of front of mount with an arrow, in pencil, pointing to the inscription on the scroll above the soldier's head.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • 'As thou hast / behaved so be / it done unto thee.' (Textual information; Half way down right side of mount level with the inscription on the scroll above the soldier's head.; Handwriting; Pencil)
  • '1920 . / X' (Textual information; Top left and right corners of back of mount.; Handwriting; Ink)
  • '1" Scale' (Back centre 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.

The design is for Twywell church, in the north of Northamptonshire.
Bibliographic reference
Harrison, Martin 'Victorian Stained Glass'. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980, 76 p.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1436-2001

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Record createdFebruary 19, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O64173/twywell-stained-glass-design-burlison--grylls/
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