Prudence and Fortitude
1873 – 1875
Accession number: 1927P433
Pencil with tracery outlines in black pen and ink on paper.
Width: 468 mm
Height: 669 mm
Information
The central light in this design remains empty. The design was originally intended for a window of three lights in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, but was never executed. The figure of Courage or Fortitude was used by Morris and Co in 1895 for a window in Horstead Church, near Norwich. There are no Morris & Co windows in the Cathedral.The design for Prudence was used in the Albion Window (second from right, top row), at the Congregational Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Posthumously, it was utilised in 1903 in the bottom row, left, of the north aisle, third window of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.This cartoon also appears in the Morris & Co Windows Book, 1940P604.1, as numbers 229 and 230, respectively.
- Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Sir Edward Burne-Jones | - |
Inscriptions
| Type | Position(s) | Method | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFDP 38/ No 5 | ||||
| Maker's mark | middle right | Handwritten | - | Ink/ Pencil |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby | p. 145 |
| Burne-Jones | |||
| Bill Waters, Martin Harrison | 1973 | Barrie & Jenkins, London | p. 122 |
| The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle | |||
| A Charles Sewter | 1975 | Yale University Press, New Haven | Vol. I: figs. 624 & 642; Vol. II: pp. 44, 218 |
| The 'Cartoon Book' and Morris & Company's sale of Burne-Jones's Cartoons in 1901-1904 | |||
| Douglas Schoenherr | 2005, Volume XXIX | The Journal of Stained Glass, London | p. 113 |
| Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | |||
| 2007 | Dan Giles, Ltd., London | p. 88 | |
Associated places
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | Associated with |
| Horstead Church, near Norwich | Made for |
| Congregational Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire | Made for |
Associated organisations
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Morris & Co | Realised by |
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