The Parable of the Vineyard, The Arrival of the Lord’s Son, No.4, cartoon for stained glass

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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

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

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Date: 1861
Dimensions: 61.6 x 60.9
Object Type: design
Material: ink on paper
Catalogue number: A264
Designer: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

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Date: c.1865
Dimensions: 63 x 37.5
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, sepia and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A261
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896

This design for a stained-glass window shows a king wearing a crown whilst holding a sword and spectre. The design was first used for a small two light window in the north aisle of St. Stephen’s parish church, near St. Peter Port, Guernsey 1865 for the figure of Josiah.

The same design was later used for the figure of King Alfred in the chancel East window of St. Mary’s, Bloxham, Oxfordshire in 1869 and again as King Alfred in the east window of St. James, Thornton, near Bradford, Yorkshire in 1876.

Object Type: design

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