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Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Stained glass was a ubiquitous art form in the nineteenth century, present in churches, railway stations, museums, and homes. Nevertheless, it has rarely been discussed outside of specialist fields. This issue of 19 brings together scholars from across a range of disciplines in order to examine, interpret, and reframe stained glass from the widest possible variety of perspectives in order to demonstrate its rich potential. We explore how this entrepreneurial and technologically innovative medium used ‘traditional’ forms not just to articulate well-worn stories, but to tell new ones in self-avowedly modern settings, revealing much about nineteenth-century culture, aesthetics, and contexts. The editors wish to acknowledge that the colloquium at which many of the ideas for these articles were first aired was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n.295463. They also wish to remember with affection one of the participants, Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, a leading authority on the Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland, whose unexpected death in 2018, after a short illness, was a sad loss to stained glass scholarship. Cover image: Robert McCausland, Detail of The Union of Commerce and Industry, 1899, Old City Hall, Toronto. To the right, behind Industry, are representatives of trade unions. To the left are allegorical and highly racialized embodiments of the continents: Africa carries an ivory tusk, while Europe carries a miniature of the Venus de Milo, discovered in 1820 and hailed as one of the finest works of Greek sculpture. Behind is the bustling modern port. © edk7/flickr.
Editors: Gareth Atkins (Guest Editor), Jasmine Allen (Guest Editor), Kate Nichols (Guest Editor)
Introduction
Reframing Stained Glass in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
- Jasmine Allen
- Gareth Atkins
- Kate Nichols
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Making and Mending
Medieval Stained Glass and the Victorian Restorer
- Sarah Brown
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
The Union of Science and Art: Stained Glass Windows for the South Kensington Museum
- Jasmine Allen
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Recovered or Perfected: The Discourse of Chemistry in the Nineteenth-Century Revival of Stained Glass in Britain and France
- Thea Goldring
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Amateur Stained Glass in English Churches, 1830-80
- Thomas Kupper
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Consumers and Contexts
Colonial Themes in Stained Glass, Home and Abroad: A Visual Survey
- G. A. Bremner
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Time and Telegraphy: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Stained Glass
- Karen Burns
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Seeing Red
- Sally Rush
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Stained Glass and the Victorian Town: Rochdale Library, Museum, and Art Gallery
- Veronica Smith
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Readings and Iconographies
Art or Articles of Trade: Appreciating Variety in Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Stained Glass
- Martin Crampin
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
‘Daylight upon magic’: Stained Glass and the Victorian Monarchy
- Michael Ledger-Lomas
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Remediation, Medievalism, and Empire in T. W. Camm’s ‘Jubilee of the Nations’ Window at Great Malvern Priory
- Jim Cheshire
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
‘So great a cloud of witnesses’: Shaping Sacred Space in the Victorian Anglo-World
- Gareth Atkins
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
Afterword
Stained Glass: An Afterword
- Isobel Armstrong
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
19 Live
Introduction to 19 Live
- Victoria Mills
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
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Review of Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain
- Sasha Dovzhyk
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
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Review of ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisters’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Amelia Yeates
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
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A Present-Day Morality for the Present Day
- Sally Blackburn-Daniels
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
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Review of William Blake at Tate Britain: 'For the pictures'
- Susan Matthews
Issue 30 • 2020 • Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts
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