Skip to main content

Cartoons for St. Frideswide window, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford after Edward Burne-Jones

 Single Item
MS. Top. Oxon. a. 81
Held at the Weston Library

  • Request
    this

Working copies, after designs for stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones, of scenes illustrating the legend of St. Frideswide for the east window of the Latin Chapel. The window, a memorial for canon John Bull (d. 1858), was executed by the firm of James Powell and Sons of Whitefriars, London, with Benjamin Woodward as architect. Woodward supplied Burne-Jones with the wrong measurements. The present copies, which reduce the designs of Burne-Jones’s original cartoons to the correct size, were prepared for Powell and Sons by Miss Oakman. The copies contain eight of the sixteen scenes of the four main lights: lights 1, scene ii; 3, scenes ii-iv; 4, scenes 1-1v (complete).

Dates

  • Creation: 1859-1860

Extent

8 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Top. Oxon. a. 81, fols. 1-2].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Shelfmark:

MS. Top. Oxon. a. 81

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 22484

Abstract

Cartoons for St. Frideswide window, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford after Edward Burne-Jones

Biographical / Historical

Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was a painter. For further details see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given to the library by Mr and Mrs Halstead B. Van der Poel, through Bodley's American Friends, Oct 1977.

Bibliography

See J. Gordon-Christian, 'The Archives of the Whitefriars Studio, London', Artifex 1 (1968), pp. 35, 37-38.
For photographs of the completed window, see A.C. Sewter, The stained glass of William Morris and his circle New Haven and London 1974, pp. 14-15, 23, pls. III, 19-22).
For the subjects of the window see S.A. Warner, Oxford Cathedral, London 1924, pp. 96-97.

Physical Facet

Pencil, charcoal and ink on thick paper

Title
Cartoons for St. Frideswide window, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford after Edward Burne-Jones
Status
Published
Author
EAD version 2023 by C. McIlwaine
Date
EAD version 2023
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom