`In its specialist field cannot be too highly recommended.' APOLLO
The 19th century saw a dramatic increase in the demand for stained glass, stimulated by the great architects of the Gothic revival. Birkin Haward surveysthe growth and development of the art on a national level, then proceeds to a detailed local study of stained glass in Suffolk. The Gazetteer to every church in the county, sets down the principle facts of all the existing stained glass windows; a Directory supplies information on designers and workshops, and finally, `Suffolk Stained Glass Painters of the 19th Century' includes biographical details on local glass painters, including Allen of Lowestoft, the King brothers of Ipswich, Woolnough of Framlingham, Fisk of Yoxford, and a number of others.[East Anglia] Birkin Haward surveys the growth and development of the art on a national level (stimulated by the great artists of the Gothic revival) then proceeds to a detailed local study of stained glass in Suffolk. An exhaustive Gazetteer sets down the principle facts of all the existing stained glass windows; and there are biographical details on local glasspainters, including Allen of Lowestoft, the King brothers of Ipswich, Woolnough of Framlingham, Fisk of Yoxford, and others.
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336 colour. 92 b/w. 6 line.
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Höhe: 242 mm
Breite: 190 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-529-6 (9780851155296)
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Part 1 Gazetteer of stained glass in Suffolk churches: form, content and objectives of the survey; some quantitative results of the survey; church by church schedule. Part 2 Directory of firms and designers of Suffolk windows: firms and designers of the period; directory notes; works of foreign stained glass firms; count of attributed windows; stained glass windows installed in Suffolk churches: 1800-1900; schedule of firms with chronological lists of window locations. Part 3 Suffolk glass painters of the nineteenth century: Suffolk stained glass through the century - the state of the stained glass art in 1800 - Suffolk glass painters - Robert Allen - pre 1850 stained glass in Suffolk - foreign glass collection - other works by Allen and Yarington - surviving unattributed pre 1840 glass; Suffolk glaziers and their windows 1800-1875 - Robert Allen of Lowestoft (1745-1835) - John Winter of Bungay - William Lilly of Wrentham - Henry Fisk of Yoxford - Constantine Woolnough of Framlingham - John Cuthbert of Ipswich - Henry Day of Ipswich - David & Edward Haggar of Ipswich - Robert & John King of Ipswich; Suffolk amateur glass painters - Revd Charles Rawlins (1813-94) - Mrs Lucy Marriott (1820-after 1875) - Miss Lucy Rickards (1823-after 1865) - Revd George Drury (1819-1895) - Mrs Ann Owen (1817-after 1880) - the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford - Mary and Bessie McKean - the amateur phenomenon.
