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St Frideswide - Design for Stained Glass Window, Christchurch Oxford
St Frideswide - Design for Stained Glass Window, Christchurch Oxford

St Frideswide - Design for Stained Glass Window, Christchurch Oxford

Artist (Birmingham, England, 1833 - 1898)
Date1859
Mediumink and watercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: 49 × 30cm
Frame Size: 68.4 × 48.2cm
Weight: 3kg (Framed)
AcquisitionPurchased in 1949.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG002654
About MeBurne-Jones was one of the second generation of Pre-Raphaelites who formed around Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Oxford in the late 1850s. This watercolour was the first idea for the design for a stained glass window for the Latin Chapel of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Burne-Jones' design tells the story of St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford. He shows the salient events of her life - from her escape from Algar, Prince of Leicester, to the last scene of her death. The finished window corresponds closely to this drawing but lacks the smooth flow of its continuing narrative.

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Burne-Jones, a second generation member of Rosetti's Pre-Raphaelites, made this design about Oxford's female patron saint for the city's Christ Church Cathedral
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