Saint Anne

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Date: 1899
Object Type: book
Catalogue number: K625b
Author: Day, Lewis Foreman (1845 - 1910)
Publisher: J.S. Virtue and Co. Ltd

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Date: c.1908
Dimensions: 25 x 25
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D435
Artist: Merritt, Anna Lea, 1844, 1930
Sitter: Toynbee, Charlotte Maria (30 March 1841 - 8 January 1931)
Credit notes: Presented by the Trustees of the Anna Lea Merritt Estate, via the V&A, 1963

Portrait in coloured crayon of Charlotte Maria Toynbee, née Atwood, by the American artist Anna Lee Merrit. Toynbee studied at Oxford University, where she met her future husband, the economic historian Arnold Toynbee. After her husband’s death Toynbee served on the committee aiming to create a settlement in Oxford, which resulted in Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, London (named after Arnold Toynbee). Toynbee was Poor Law Guardian as well as managing and contributing to the finances of the female Oxford college Lady Margaret Hall for forty years. This drawing is possibly for a study for an oil portrait of Toynbee by Merrit, in 1908.

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Date: 1913
Dimensions: 26.2 x 17
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A564
Artist: Whall, Christopher Whitworth (1849 - 1924)
Credit notes: Gift of Christopher Whall, 1973

This design for a three light window was designed by Christopher Whall in 1913 for St Mary and All Souls Church, Whalley, Lancashire. It was created in memory of Harriette Sawyer the wife of H.W. Worsley-Taylor KC of Moreton; Worsley-Taylor was a judge. The design depicts the Blessed Virgin Mary and a child in the central panel with Gabriel holding a Lily on the left and an Angel holding a sceptre on the right.

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Date: 1887-1967
Dimensions: 13.5 x 19.8
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A672
Artist: Whall, Veronica (1887 - 1967)
Credit notes: Gift of Christopher Whall, 1973

This design for a three light window was designed by Veronica Whall. It depicts The Three Maries a the tomb of the Risen Christ.

Veronica Whall was the daughter of Christopher Whall, she began assisting her father in her early teens. In the 1900s she attended classes, including Edward Johnston’s in lettering and calligraphy, at the Central School of Arts & Crafts. With her brother, Hew Bernard Whall, she set up ‘The Stonebridge Press’ and illustrated a number of its hand printed publications. By the time of the First World War, Whall was one of her father’s principal assistants, becoming a partner in the firm Whall & Whall Ltd in 1922. After her father’s death in 1924, she carried on the work of the Whall studio, helped by her brother until her retirement in 1953. Among her most important commissions were windows for Carlisle and Leicester Cathedrals and the complete glazing scheme for King Arthur’s Hall.

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Date: 1921
Dimensions: 34.1 x 27.1
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A553
Artist: Whall, Christopher Whitworth (1849 - 1924)
Credit notes: Gift of Christopher Whall, 1973

This design for a five light window was an unexceuted design by Christopher Whall in 1921 for St. Leonard Church, Middleton, Lancashire. The first and fifth panel depict the story of Psalm 107 with small subject panels, where sailors go out to sea and are humbled by the power of a storm, they then call out to Jesus who calms the storm. The middle panel depict Jesus’ Ascension with Fides and Spes either side of Him. There is quarry glazing above and below.

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Date: 1920
Dimensions: 28.1 x 17
Object Type: design
Material: pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Catalogue number: A578
Artist: Whall, Christopher Whitworth (1849 - 1924)
Credit notes: Gift of Christopher Whall, 1973

This design for a three light window was designed by Christopher Whall in 1920 as a War memorial for St. Matthew Church, Pentrich, Derbyshire. It is in memory of Captain Bernard Ridley Winthrop Smith, 1st Scots Guards, who fell in action at Ypres in November 1914, at the age of 31. St Michael is in the centre, using no weapon but pointing to the banner of the Cross. In the side lights are St George and St Louis, the warrior saints of England and France.

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Date: c.1902
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: J1179a
Sitter: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Photographer: F.J. Scarlett & Co

This photograph depicts George Jack’s preparatory carved plaster panel for the Memorial Cottages built in 1902 at Kelmscott, Lechlade and designed by Philip Webb. The panel, which sits above the cottage doors depicts William Morris under a tree with his satchel by his leg. The panel was worked up by Jack from a pencil sketch by Philip Webb. A photograph of the final stone panel is also in the Gallery’s collection, see J1179b

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Date: c.1902
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: J1179b
Sitter: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Photographer: Gardner, Fairford

This photograph depicts George Jack’s carved bas-relief panel for the Memorial Cottages built in 1902 at Kelmscott, Lechlade and designed by Philip Webb. The panel, which sits above the cottage doors, depicts William Morris under a tree with his satchel by his leg. The panel was worked up by Jack from a pencil sketch by Philip Webb. A photograph of a preparatory plaster panel is also in the Gallery’s collection, see J1179a

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Date: 1914
Object Type: design
Material: bodycolour on paper
Catalogue number: A1415
Artist: Jack, Margery (1894 - 1974)
Credit notes: Gift of John Brandon-Jones, 2006

The poster shows a selection of dolls in the uniforms of the armed and public services, along with toy animals. The ‘New Army’ of Margery and Jessie Jack’s novelty toys is also a reference to the ‘New Army’ recruited for war service by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener in the earliest phase of the First World War. As war had broken out in August, the poster, which is dated 1914, was probably drawn sometime in the autumn (September-November) months. It was designed for display at Selfridges in the shopping period leading up to Christmas.

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Date: 1873
Object Type: book
Catalogue number: K63
Author: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Publisher: Ellis and White
Owner: Oldham (née Morris), Emma (1829 - 1915)
Credit notes: Transfer from Walthamstow Central Library, 1951

This is a first edition of Love is Enough published by Ellis and White, a publisher owned by Frederick Startridge Ellis and David White. The stamped gold decoration on the cover, with the title surrounded by willow leaves, was designed by William Morris. He gave this copy to his sister, Emma Oldham and it is inscribed “Emma Oldham from her most affectionate Brother William Morris Dec. 7th 1872”.

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