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Stained Glass Panel - Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' - Dorigen

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1927M1019
Collection:Applied Art - Stained Glass
Date:1863 - 1863

Maker Information

Designer:Sir Edward Burne-Jones - View biography for Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Manufacturer:Morris & Co - View history

Notes

The partnership of Morris and Burne-Jones began at Oxford where they shared a taste for the romantic, religious and legendary. Their firm, Morris & Co, dominated English stained glass manufacturing in the second half of the 19th century.
This panel represents one of Chaucer's heroines, Dorigen of Bretaigne, from the 'Canterbury Tales'.

Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
Medium:Stained glass panel.
Material(s):Lead
Place of Origin:England

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Dimensions

Height:735 mm
Width:455 mm