Stained Glass: Samuel

designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1883

Samuel is a single lancet light of the Prophet in old age, set against delicately painted lozenge-shaped quarries. It forms a strong contrast to other figurative subjects shown at the Boston fair in America. Morris & Co's aim was to introduce to an American audience the firm's various ways of rendering subject matter and the different techniques of glass painting.

• Artists Include:
• Morris & Co

• Medium: stained & painted glass, lead, wood
• Dimensions: 183 x 56 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2900 ( Total: £11,500; Tax Remission)
• ArtFunded in: 1996
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

Thought to have been purchased by Henry Lindley Fry at the Boston Fair 1883; by bequest to Kemper Road Swedenborgian Church Cincinnati, 1895; Christie's, 2/5/96, lot 29, unsold.

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