Design for a Mothers’ Union Embroidered Banner

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Date: 1861
Object Type: design
Material: pen, ink, wash on paper
Catalogue number: A265
Designer: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

The seven panels were designed for the East Window of St. Martin’s, together with a Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St. John by Ford Madox Brown. All seven panels were shown at the International Exhibition, London 1862 before being installed in the church.

The head of the man appearing at the gateway to receive the letter is a portrait of William Morris; the two men about to stone the servant are modelled on the art dealer Gambart (right) and the artist Val Prinsep (left).

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Date: 1861
Dimensions: 60 x 58
Object Type: design
Material: pen, ink, wash on paper
Catalogue number: A269
Designer: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

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Date: 1861
Dimensions: 61.6 x 59.7
Object Type: design
Material: pen, ink, wash on paper
Catalogue number: A266
Designer: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

One of seven designs (WMG A263 -A269) by Gabriel Dante Rossetti from 1861, for stained glass executed by Morris, Marshall Faulkner & Co., for St. Martin’s Scarborough . The series is referred to in a letter from Rossetti to Ford Madox Brown (1 December 1861) (Doughty & Wahl, ‘Letters of D G Rossetti’. O.U.P. 1965, Vol.ii p.426): ‘I’m doing the Parable of the Vineyard for the shop glass; I think you have a number of ‘The Pictorial History of England’ with a Saxon wine-press in it. Would you kindly send it to me by book post? If you’ve anything else in the Vineyard line you might include it …’.
The seven panels were designed for the East Window of St. Martin’s, together with a Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St. John by Ford Madox Brown. All seven panels were shown at the International Exhibition, London 1862 before being installed in the church.

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Date: 1861
Dimensions: 60.9 x 91.4
Object Type: design
Material: pen, ink, wash on paper
Catalogue number: A268
Designer: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

Material: pen, ink, wash on paper

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