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Drawing, Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

This is a Drawing. It was created by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and company: Morris & Co.. It is dated 1874 and we acquired it in 1946. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase in memory of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander.

Its dimensions are

24.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: PAISLEY ABBEY / S. E. WINDOW NAVE; center right: Commemoration here; lower left: 1/2 INCH SCALE; lower right: The property of Morris & Company / 26 Queen Square / Bloomsbury

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland; Company: Morris & Co. (United Kingdom); Sir Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898); pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper; 24.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Museum purchase in memory of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander; 1946-71-3

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