Designs for stained glass: The Last Judgement - Devil and Damned Soul Descending

Details

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Designs for stained glass: The Last Judgement - Devil and Damned Soul Descending
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with gum arabic on paper, each on two sheets
5 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. (13 x 13.6 cm.), circular
(2)

Provenance

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (†); Christie's, 12 May 1883, lot 96 (12 gns to Brough).
Sir Thomas Wardle.
Mrs Janet Camp Troxell.
with Abbott and Holder, London.

Literature

The Builder, 25 July 1853.
H.C. Marillier, D.G. Rossetti, London, 1899, pp. 155-160.
V. Surtees, Paintings of D.G. Rossetti, 1971, p. 84, no. 141.

Exhibited

Bradford, Bradford Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1904, unnumbered.

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Lot Essay

The present drawings are two of nine designs for the rose window of St Martin's, Scarborough, designed by George Frederick Bodley and built in 1862-3. Much of the decoration and stained glass was by Morris & Co., and Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris all contributed painted panels to the pulpit. Rossetti's designs for the rose window were never executed.

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