‘St Raphael the Archangel’ stained glass design for Gloucester Cathedral

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Date: 1863
Dimensions: 48 x 19
Object Type: design
Material: ink and watercolour
Catalogue number: BlA410
Designer: Webb | Philip | 1831 | 1915

Philip Webb’s design for details of a canopy tracery. To the lower left, a narrow column surmounted with a foliate capital supports a triple-lobed arch with a trefoil detail. A gothic spire sits above the column and to the left of a band of decorated crenellation. Above this is a small pier adorned with blind tracery and surmounted with a simple gable. Springing from this is an ornate buttress topped with three curling ornaments. At the top is a spray of a feather and flower. Behind the motive are two light arches drawn in pencil with the rest in black, yellow, and sepia inks.

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Date: 1949
Dimensions: 28.2 x 19.1
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A682
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)
Credit notes: Presented by C. J. Whall, 1973

Stained glass window design by Veronica Whall for a two-light window in the Church of All Saints Blaby, Leicester. The windows depicts the Acts of Charity.

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Date: c. 1935
Dimensions: 25.4 x 15.3
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A657
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)
Credit notes: Presented by C. J. Whall, 1973

Design for window by Veronica Whall, depicting Moses and Angel and the Baptism of Christ, with plain glazing above and below subject panels.

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Dimensions: 52.2 x 28.2
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A675
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)
Credit notes: Presented by C. J. Whall, 1973

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Date: 1949
Dimensions: 28.2 x 19.1
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A683
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)

Stained glass window design by Veronica Whall for the south-aisle three-light window in Church of All Saints Blaby, Leicester. The windows depict: Centre light: St. Ann & Our Lady as a Child; Left-hand light: Angel’s annunciation to St. Joseph; Right-hand light: Birth of Our Lady.

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Date: 1949
Dimensions: 28.4 x 19.3
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A681
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)

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Date: 1950
Dimensions: 9.5 x 20.2
Object Type: design
Material: ink and watercolour
Catalogue number: A685
Designer: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)

Design for an altar piece by Veronica Whall depicting the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Flight into Egypt and Christ and the Disciples with Our Lady.

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Date: 1874
Dimensions: 56.8 x 54.7
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: A1067
Designer and maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Retailer: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Credit notes: Acquired by the William Morris Gallery with support from the Art Fund and additional support from the Resource/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the William Morris Gallery

Powdered was designed by William Morris in 1874. It takes it name from the relatively informal arrangement of meadow flower sprigs- unconnected by a linking devices- over the surface of the paper. Among the six flowers featured, rose, speedwell, pansy and cornflower have been identified.

From the late 1860s, Morris’s wallpapers became increasingly fashionable in Aesthetic and later, Arts & Crafts interior decoration. Morris responded to demand by continually adding to his forms range, so that his substantial output in the medium- some fifty patterns- reflects all phases of his designing career. Powdered is one of several mid-1870s designs featuring willow foliage, a favourite motif which Morris drew with endless inventiveness.

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Date: 1876
Dimensions: 102.3 x 82.5
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: BlA454
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896

‘Acanthus’ is the only design William Morris personally created for printed velveteen – a heavy, luxurious textured cotton fabric that became fashionable for furnishing in the 1880s. Morris was likely dissatisfied by the overly complicated finishing process of the textile, favouring fabrics that could be produced more simply. Nevertheless, Morris & Co. later went on to produce a range of block-printed velveteen fabrics (see William Morris Gallery F355) including ‘Acanthus’ and five other designs, four of which were designed by John Henry Dearle. The range also included ‘Wey’, designed by Morris in 1882-83, but originally intended for indigo-discharged cotton. The finished ‘Acanthus’ velveteen was produced in red (see William Morris Gallery F354), blue and yellow colourways.

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Date: c.1862
Object Type: design
Material: pencil and ink
Catalogue number: BLA409
Artist: Morris, William, 1834, 1896

William Morris designed this 3-tile figure for a fireplace at Sandroyd, Surrey, the house built by Philip Webb in 1861-62 for the artist Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Photographs taken before the later destruction of the firpace show the finished design was cut down and only the central section used, excluding parts of the foliage and branches on the side of this original design. The figure of Adam was accompanied by the figure of Eve next to it. Other tiles from this fireplace are also in the collection, see C175 Alceste and C214 Pomegranate tree with shield.

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Date: 1861
Dimensions: 61.6 x 60.9
Object Type: design
Material: ink on paper
Catalogue number: A263
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.

Object Type: design

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