dajavous says:
The Dove Descending by Philip Webb.
I couldn't resist this stunning detail by Walwyn - even more impressive when you look at the full size image.
What incredible detail around the Dove's head, the flaming suns, and all the blue background glass.
Enough! Back to St Elizabeth.
Sheepdog Rex has just uploaded another equally impressive close up of this awkward- to-photograph window - I don't think that spider has moved guys!
www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/4862279655/in/pool-wil...
Awards to you both.
dajavous says:
These windows have been made from some of the glass from the 1863 Morris & Co window at Bradford Cathedral.
You will need to look at the largest sized photo to see it, but St Elizabeth, with her boy are now at the top right of the left-hand window.
An article about the glass from this very early Firm window can be found at:
www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk/antiquary/third/vol01/morri...
It is by Mary Lister, and first appeared in the Bradford Antiquary in 1985. Her article goes on to describe another 1864 Morris window, featuring a large Salvator Mundi (Jesus, stands with right arm raised, holding a Latin cross fleurée) above Philip Webb's design of a pelican feeding its young, with four saints on either side of the centre panel. Mary reports a humourous entry in Morris's notebook, stating that he got £2 each for designing 'a beastly James and Jude'.
dajavous says:
This contemporary window at Middleton Cheney from 1880 features another version of St Elizabeth, again without St John.
The silver stain of the dress shows up more strongly here.
The quarries show foliage, and a design which looks like a stylised 'fleur de lis', made of three daisies or sunflowers. Perhaps with the tulips and sunflowers we are seeing a trend towards 'aesthetic style' quarries.
The border also seems to contain daisies.
dajavous says:
A great find by Rex - the drawing used for the cartoon of St Elizabeth and the boy St John the Baptist.
Now you see the reason for St Elizabeth's stance.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Part of a collection of 14 works donated to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Arthur and Helen Grogan presented a total of 167 works to nine museums through the Art Fund. The Grogans are two architects with a passion for British 19th- and 20th century works – former tenants of the National Trust property Standen in West Sussex designed by William Morris’s friend Philip Webb.
www.artfund.org/artwork/10748/cartoon-for-stained-glass%3...
The Grogan bequest:
www.artfund.org/pdf/AQ_Gr.pdf
dajavous says:
The three figures from Middleton Cheney.
At Coddington Burne Jones's 'Virgin of the Annunciation' cartoon appears at the centre of the next window, which is over the S aisle altar of the 'Lady Chapel'. (I have created another gallery about these cartoons -Joseph, the Virgin and St John all by Burne-Jones.)
dajavous says:
The whole window at Middleton Cheney, showing the colourful shields and the lovely Morris Annunciation in the tracery.
There are so many excellent photos of this church on flickr that it's hard to choose any particular one.
The Annunciation above the Virgin is a beautiful one. Walwyn's great detail of it has had to come out of the gallery to make way for another St Elizabeth, but I have retained most of the text, and included the image in a comment at the end.
The same Annunciation cartoon can be seen in a 2-light window, in Martin Beek's lovely photo of the window at the Chapel at Lord Leycester Hospital 1866. This was the first use of the design on glass, and it was reused at least five times more.
www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/2896064717/
The design by William Morris was originally for the wings of a triptych (to enclose a 15thC polychrome sculpture 'the Lamentation of Christ') at Cheddleston Church, Leek in the 1866. The painting was done by Charles Napier Hemy, and the architect G G Street was extremely pleased with it. The sculpture was restored under Morris's direction,and authentic patterns were added to the clothing. (See Parry, pg 132 - V&A Morris Centenery Exhibition catalogue.)
dajavous says:
Our first sighting of the child John the Baptist.
This is what Aidan says:
South chancel window at Wolverton by William Morris & Co .... The subjects are St Elizabeth with the young John the Baptist and Mary with the infant Jesus. Sadly the painted detail has not worn well. The tracery glass is medieval though has suffered recent damage.
St Mary's at Wolverton is a humble 13th century building consisting of nave and chancel (divided within only by a floor to ceiling traceried wooden screen) with a squat weatherboarded west steeple. The most important survivals here are the fragments of medieval glass from the 14th & 15th centuries found in several of the windows, most notably that on the north side of the nave with several fragmentary figures.
This was Aidan's second visit - in 2006 he'd found the church closed for restoration. I am so glad that he went back.
dajavous says:
A detail of Madox Brown's drawing showing St Elizabeth cradling the boy who would become the Baptist.
Having recently read biographies of Burne-Jones and Rossetti, and having visited the 2011 Manchester Madox Brown Exhibition I learnt that Madox Brown was a loving father, three of whose children suffered tragic early deaths. His love of children shines out from his works - his cartoons, paintings and especially the Town Hall murals at Manchester.
dajavous says:
The whole window at Wolverton, dated 1865. The second figure is equally charming and I'm sure it must have been designed by someone used to closely observing children. Sewter tentatively assigns this Virgin and Child to Madox Brown.
The window was in memory of Mrs Margaret Mayhew 1803-1858, given by her children Spencer and Alice/Losh. 'Her children shall arise and call her blessed.'
Can anyone tell us the date of the window, or anything about the second cartoon? Is it too by Madox Brown?
The cartoon doesn't seem to be listed in Sewter's article about his cartoons. He notes that Madox Brown 'gave very careful thought to the special demands of the medium ... and came to the conclusion that what was required above all, was 'invention, expression and good dramatic action'. Sewter adds that his most characteristic designs show heightened emotion and a fondness for realistic details: 'Even more typical are the two little bare-legged hoys, the young Isaac clinging to his father's belt, and the boy John wrapped in the protecting arms of his mother Elizabeth."
You can read the article online on the Morris Society website
www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/SU68.2.2.Sewter.pdf
Aidan has a detail of the light on his photostream.
dajavous says:
Here is the cartoon again, also with the boy, this time in St Teilo's Chapel at Llandaff Cathedral. This dates to 1866, in a 3-light window with Christ the King and Zaccharias.
Robin has details of them all, showing the vine-leaf border - which I mistook for dafodills, when I first saw it!
For information about the slightly later 2-light window from 1873 at st Martin's, Marple Cheshire:
www.marple-uk.com/stmartins.htm
A photo of the window has recently appeared on flickr and can be seen below.
St Elizabeth with the boy is paired with a Burne-Jones cartoon, Virgin Mary of the Annunciation - which is also in Coddington's 3-light window. (The website includes all the windows, most of them Morris & Co, but unfortunately the pictures are too small to make out some of the cartoons conclusively.)
dajavous says:
The whole 1873 window at at St John the Baptist, Knaresbrough.
This window contains three figures from Coddington's 6 Morris & Co windows and also is featured in my St John the Baptist and Samuel galleries.
The figures are:
Zacharias, St John the Baptist, St Elizabeth, Elkanah, Samuel, St Anna (Hannah?).
These figures in common with Coddington are St John the Baptist (centre top by Morris), Samuel (below him by Burne Jones) and St Elizabeth (top row by Ford Madox Brown).
I thought the female on the bottom row was Martha, but Sewter identifies in as young St Anne, by Madox Brown:
1872 Knaresborough - ANNE, Saint, to left, young, in white head-dress and ample cloak, holding bottle in right hand.
He identifies the figure top left as Zacharias, by Madox Brown (and says it was also used in Leigh in 1874):
ZACHARIAS, standing, full-face, in vestments, holding a censer in left hand and rod in right. (Cartoon, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 149'12 R5 May 1872 Knaresborough; 1874 Leigh (Staffs.) This is a different cartoon from the one at Llandaff.
dajavous says:
A lovely clear view of the 1866 window at Llandaff Cathedral featured above.
Does anyone know anything about the other cartoons? Robin thought they might be by Morris. This window is by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co and is dated 1866. The figures are St Elizabeth (with John the Baptist) and I think Christ the King and Zaccharias (but not the same cartoon as at Knaresborough, below).
Post script - Sewter ascribes Christ the King tentatively to William Morris, and Zacharias is identified as WM 172.
The window commemorates RD Prichard, Senior Vicar of the Cathedral and his wife Lucy, and was erected by their surviving children.
dajavous says:
This 1873 window from St Martin Marple, Cheshire is on the S-wall of the chancel. It shows:
Mary Virgin BJ 108 - which is the central cartoon in Coddington's triple window
St Elizabeth with the boy, John the Baptist
Presentation in the Temple WM 82a
Presentation in the Temple with Simeon WM 170a.
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