DOI Heft:
Nr. 166 (December, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: Sir Edward Burne-Jones's designs for painted glass
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19869#0130
Painted Glass designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones
designer for the best and most important class of designed about 1862, in Darley Dale Church,
work, viz., the delineation of the human figure, Derbyshire, the lead-lines duly appear. Again,
and as such his productions (for which Morris two beautiful groups of angels, designed by Burne-
himself entertained a boundless admiration to the Jones about the middle of the "sixties" of the
end) came to be treated with more care and nineteenth century, and executed for the Church
respect than the rest. Therefore it seldom of the Annunciation at Brighton, also exhibit the
happened that originals by Burne-Jones were lead-lines. But this practice was not long con-
allowed to drift away into alien channels. By far tinued and was finally abandoned after 1870, if
the largest proportion of the drawings he made indeed any instance of its survival at so late a date
for the firm still remain in their possession. ever occurred.
In the case of the designs he made for Messrs. The circumstance was probably due to the
Powell, Burne-Jones prepared the cartoon com- organised practice of co-operation adopted by the
plete, coloured and ready for working from, lead- firm. Thus there grew up the custom of Burne-
lines included; and some also of the earlier Jones designing nothing but the figures. At first
windows designed for Morris & Co. were prepared William Morri-i used to design the floral back-
in the same way. Thus in the originals of the grounds and ornaments in the robes, but sub-
charming series illustrative of the Song of Songs, sequently the responsibility of the accessories
devolved upon Mr. H.
Dearie, who for years
past has had the whole
arranging of every
work of stained-glass
executed by the firm.
The two figures of
Adam and Eve at
Frankby, Cheshire (p.
101) were drawn by
Burne-Jones simply
nude, and the trees and
lead-lines provided by
other hands. The date
is uncertain, but there
is reason to believe
that the work belongs
to about]i87o-75. To
the same decade be-
longs a magnificent
series of windows in
the transept at Jesus
College, Cambridge.
They include the
Sibyls, who hold, in
mediaeval art and
legend, a place only
second to that of the
Old Testament pro-
phets themselves (pp.
95, 97)-
The Vyner memorial
window (p. 93) already
referred to, at Oxford,
was designed in 1872.
The richest variations
windows" in dllett road chapel, liverpool .
designed by sir e. burne-jones in trie colouring are
100
designer for the best and most important class of designed about 1862, in Darley Dale Church,
work, viz., the delineation of the human figure, Derbyshire, the lead-lines duly appear. Again,
and as such his productions (for which Morris two beautiful groups of angels, designed by Burne-
himself entertained a boundless admiration to the Jones about the middle of the "sixties" of the
end) came to be treated with more care and nineteenth century, and executed for the Church
respect than the rest. Therefore it seldom of the Annunciation at Brighton, also exhibit the
happened that originals by Burne-Jones were lead-lines. But this practice was not long con-
allowed to drift away into alien channels. By far tinued and was finally abandoned after 1870, if
the largest proportion of the drawings he made indeed any instance of its survival at so late a date
for the firm still remain in their possession. ever occurred.
In the case of the designs he made for Messrs. The circumstance was probably due to the
Powell, Burne-Jones prepared the cartoon com- organised practice of co-operation adopted by the
plete, coloured and ready for working from, lead- firm. Thus there grew up the custom of Burne-
lines included; and some also of the earlier Jones designing nothing but the figures. At first
windows designed for Morris & Co. were prepared William Morri-i used to design the floral back-
in the same way. Thus in the originals of the grounds and ornaments in the robes, but sub-
charming series illustrative of the Song of Songs, sequently the responsibility of the accessories
devolved upon Mr. H.
Dearie, who for years
past has had the whole
arranging of every
work of stained-glass
executed by the firm.
The two figures of
Adam and Eve at
Frankby, Cheshire (p.
101) were drawn by
Burne-Jones simply
nude, and the trees and
lead-lines provided by
other hands. The date
is uncertain, but there
is reason to believe
that the work belongs
to about]i87o-75. To
the same decade be-
longs a magnificent
series of windows in
the transept at Jesus
College, Cambridge.
They include the
Sibyls, who hold, in
mediaeval art and
legend, a place only
second to that of the
Old Testament pro-
phets themselves (pp.
95, 97)-
The Vyner memorial
window (p. 93) already
referred to, at Oxford,
was designed in 1872.
The richest variations
windows" in dllett road chapel, liverpool .
designed by sir e. burne-jones in trie colouring are
100