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