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S. Hilda of Whitby.

Stained Glass Design
1917-1925 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stained glass design, in watercolour, probably for a single light window. The figure of St.Hilda is clothed in the grey robes of a nun with a colourful ecclesiastical fabric draped over a shoulder and around her waist. She has a blue halo, carries a shell in her right hand and a bishop's crosier in the crook of her left arm. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on cream-coloured paper with a narrow, grey card frame around its front. The frame is attached to the back of the design itself by masking tape.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleS. Hilda of Whitby. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper, mounted on card
Brief description
Stained glass design depicting St Hilda of Whitby, by Reginald Otto Bell for Clayton & Bell, pen and ink and watercolour, London, 1917-1925
Physical description
Stained glass design, in watercolour, probably for a single light window. The figure of St.Hilda is clothed in the grey robes of a nun with a colourful ecclesiastical fabric draped over a shoulder and around her waist. She has a blue halo, carries a shell in her right hand and a bishop's crosier in the crook of her left arm. The design is drawn in pen and ink and watercolour on cream-coloured paper with a narrow, grey card frame around its front. The frame is attached to the back of the design itself by masking tape.
Dimensions
  • Including frame height: 30.4cm
  • Including frame width: 16.3cm
  • Excluding frame height: 26.2cm
  • Excluding frame width: 14.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Reginald Otto Bell for / Clayton & Bell / RB' (Signature; Back of mount on top left and the initials are in the top right corner.; Handwriting; Pencil)
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.
Collection
Accession number
E.1450-2001

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Record createdFebruary 28, 2002
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