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Proposed Design for Stained Glass Windows, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa

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Date:

ca. 1910-1912

Reference:

Accession number: 1960-094 X PIC, Box number: A297-01/X1

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2936596

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Canada. Department of Public Works

Proposed Design for Stained Glass Windows, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa
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Date(s):

ca. 1910-1912

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour on white card
Support 51.600 x 41.000 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Twenty-two stained glass window designs. There are eight blank areas outlines for intended coat-of-arms, found on window designs at bottom of the sheet., Support dirty., Transferred by Department of Public Works from an unknown source., William Morris and Company began as the manufacturing and decorating firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., and was founded in 1861 by William Morris (1834-1896). It produced innovative and revolutionary designs for wall-paper, furniture, tapestry and stained glass, furnishing fabrics, carpets and more., The pencil inscription Royal Victoria Museum seems incorrect. The window was planned for the Victoria Memorial Museum in Ottawa, now the Canadian Museum of Nature at McLeod and Metcalfe Streets.

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Artist: William Morris and Company Active ca. 1861-1920s

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: In watercolour on windows, left to right: NOVA SCOTIA [and below on same window] OTTAWA ; ONTARIO ; GREAT BRITAIN [and below on same window] MANITOBA ; QUEBEC ; NEW BRUNSWICK [and below on same window] HALIFAX ; in pen and brown ink, l.r.: SCALE 3/4 TO A FOOT / PLEASE RETURN / in pencil: Royal Victoria Museum ; on mat in pencil, l.r.: William Morris and Company ; Architects / Design of Stained Glass Windows for Royal Victoria Museum... ; blind stamp l.l.: WILLIAM MORRIS / AND COMPANY / RVSKIN [sic] HOVSE [sic] / ROCHESTER ROW / NEW WESTMINSTER S W

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A297-01/X1 : Mode of storage: a241
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Ontario

SUBJ - ARCHITECTURE - ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES

ONT., OTTAWA - BUILDINGS, ROYAL VICTORIA MUSEUM
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Government

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1960-094 PIC
R182
RG11

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1960-094 X PIC
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1960-094] A297-01/X1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1960-094] C-104541

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1960-94-
Copyright: Expired

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