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Design for a stained-glass window in St Peter's Church, Tankersley

Maker

After
(artist)
1833-1898

Attributed to
Morris and Company (artist)
1855-1932

Title

Design for a stained-glass window in St Peter's Church, Tankersley

Date of Production

(15 October) 1880

Medium

pen and black ink, watercolour on paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 14.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3887

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 8

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, graphite: "No 3"; below that, black ink: "Tankersley Church Yorkshire / 1/2" Seale"; within the drawing, lower centre, brown wash: "SPES CHARI FIDES"; lower centre, numbers in pencil, words in black ink: "3 Hope 1 Charity Faith 2"; lower left margin, black ink, dated by the artist: "Oct 15.1880 Nuproperty [?] of Morris Ste [?] / 26 Green Sqr London". Verso: lower centre, graphite: "1821 / Burne Jones / Done for Fankersley [sic] Church / Yorks".

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