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This is a working copy, made in 1862, by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. after one of Brown's earliest designs for stained glass. The company were commissioned to produce two stained glass windows for St Peter's Church in Cranbourne, Berkshire. This cartoon is listed under 1862 in Hueffer's catalogue of Brown's designs for stained glass and is illustrated in the same volume (see 'Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works' p. 445). LM

  • Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
After Ford Madox Brown -
Manufacturer - Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
307 [or 1] / SP (30 [? number has been cut in half]) / Christ blessing little / Children
Inscription top right Handwritten - The whole work is squared up for transfer (numbered top-bottom: 1-18 and left-right: 1-15).. Pencil, '307' in charcoal.
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works
F M Hueffer 1896 Longmans, Green and Co., London p. 445; repr. p. 447 et seq.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p. 50
 
The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle
A Charles Sewter 1974-5 Yale University Press, New Haven for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art vol. 1 pl. 98, vol 2 pp. 57, 241, 285
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey 2008 D. Giles Limited, London p. 69

Associated organisations

Name Type
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co Commissioned by

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