Georgetown. British Guiana
Stained Glass Design
1918 (designed)
1918 (designed)
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Design for a single window light at a church in Georgetown, British Guiana, depicting the Virgin and Child. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on a piece of tightly stretched canvas attached to a cream-coloured piece of card. There is a pencil sketch of angels kneeling at either end of a Gothic tomb on a piece of brown paper attached to the back of the card.
Object details
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| Title | Georgetown. British Guiana (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour on canvas, mounted on card |
| Brief description | Stained glass design for a church in Georgetown, British Guiana, pen and ink and watercolour mounted on card, London, 1918 |
| Physical description | Design for a single window light at a church in Georgetown, British Guiana, depicting the Virgin and Child. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on a piece of tightly stretched canvas attached to a cream-coloured piece of card. There is a pencil sketch of angels kneeling at either end of a Gothic tomb on a piece of brown paper attached to the back of the card. |
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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. This design is for a church in Georgetown, British Guiana. |
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| Accession number | E.1459-2001 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2002 |
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