Designs for stained glass: The Last Judgement: Saved soul ascending; and Condemned soul descending

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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
Designs for stained glass: The Last Judgement: Saved soul ascending; and Condemned soul descending
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, each on two joined sheets of paper
5 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (13.3 x 12.1 cm.) each, irregular
(2)

Provenance

The artist's sale; Christie's, 12 May 1883, lot 96 (part, 12 gns to Brough).
Sir James Wardell.
Mrs Janet Camp Troxell; Christie's, South Kensington, 21 February 1989, lot 100 (part).
with Abbott & Holder, London, June/August 1989, where purchased for the present collection.

Literature

The Builder, 25 July 1853.
H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, 1899, p. 113, no. 116.
A.C. Sewter, 'D.G. Rossetti's Designs for Stained Glass', Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1960-1, XIII, no. 2, p. 421.
V. Surtees, Paintings of D.G. Rossetti, London, 1971, p. 84, cat. no. 141.
A.C. Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, 1975, pp. 168 and 301.
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 250

Exhibited

Bradford, Bradford Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1914, un-numbered.

Conditions of sale

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Adrian Hume-Sayer Director, Specialist

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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