19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
John Richardson: A Scholar Collects
SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. AND STUDIO | FOUR CARTOONS FOR WINDOWS
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October 13, 06:58 PM GMT
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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John Richardson: A Scholar Collects
SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. AND STUDIO
FOUR CARTOONS FOR WINDOWS
the first:
Window design for St Saviour's, Leeds
signed with initials E.B.J- (lower left), inscribed St Saviour’s Leed’s and F.P 358 (upper left) and extensively inscribed at upper corners
black chalk and wash over pencil on paper laid down on linen wrapped board
sheet: 64⅞ by 19½ in.; 164.5 by 49.5 cm
framed: 70½ by 25¾ in.; 179 by 65.5 cm
the second:
Moses
signed with initials E.B.J- (lower left) and inscribed Anticolenso (on the tablet)
black chalk on paper
sheet: 51⅛ by 20½ in.; 130 by 52.5 cm
framed: 55½ by 24 in.; 141 by 61 cm
the third:
St Peter
signed with initials E.B.J- (lower left) and inscribed F.P. 349 New Ferry Chh and indistinctly (upper left and right)
black chalk on paper laid down on paperboard
sheet: 53⅝ by 15⅜ in.; 136.2 by 39 cm
framed: 58¼ by 19½ in.; 148 by 49.5 cm
the fourth:
St Jude
signed with initials E.B.J- (lower right) and inscribed F.P. 351 New Ferry Chh and indistinctly (upper left and right) black chalk on paper
sheet: 53⅞ by 15⅜ in.; 136.8 by 39 cm
framed: 58¼ by 19½ in.; 148 by 49.5 cm
In 1861, William Morris created Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. —known as Morris & Co. after 1875 —as a single source from which fashionable families could purchase the furnishings needed for their new Arts and Crafts style homes. While the textiles and wall coverings that Morris & Co. created remain popular today, one of their greatest successes was in stained glass, created for private commissions and church windows throughout England.
Morris employed leading artists of the day (in many cases friends) such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb (the architect who designed Morris’ Red House), to design the company’s windows. Individual designs were often worked on by several different hands, but from the 1870s onward, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was the leading designer of windows for Morris & Co. His prolific cartoons are filled with color notes and hastily sketched directions meant for the skilled craftsmen and glass painters who created the windows to the artist’s specifications. These cartoons were added to Morris & Co.’s catalogue of designs, used throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a source book, allowing clients to adapt previously created cartoons to fit their needs or create new windows based on multiple designs.