Anglo-Dutch School

Lot 37
12.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 4 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 993237
Lot 37 | Anglo-Dutch School
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
Anglo-Dutch School

Henry VIII granting the charter for St Bartholomew's Hospital to its governors, drawing on paper [England, 17th century]

An intriguing drawing of the stained-glass window at St Bartholomew’s showing Henry VIII granting the hospital its new charter; the drawing captures the window as it was originally painted around 1664, before it was moved and revised in the 18th century.



565 x 430mm. Pencil, pen and brown ink, grey wash, feigned arch.



Provenance:

Christie's, London, 8 June 2000, lot 82, where purchased by the present owner.



The stained-glass window to which this drawing relates was probably painted around 1664 for the Hall of St Bartholomew's, London: it commemorates the re-founding of the Hospital by Henry VIII in 1546. The window was moved and revised by the glass painter William Price the Younger (1703 or 1707-1765) in 1743, during the rebuild of the hospital between 1730 and 1750 to the design of James Gibbs, architect of St Martin-in-the-Field; it is still in place in the great Court Room.



The present drawing is the only known record of the appearance of the St Bartholomew’s window before William Price remodelled it in 1743. Nowadays, little remains of the original 17th-century glass, apart from the heads of the kneeling figure on the left and that looking in from the extreme right, and further small pieces scattered across the window. Price added an architectural plinth at the bottom and spandrels at the top, which survive today, and heraldic devices, which are now lost (for Price's reconstruction of the window, see M. Archer, 'Stained Glass at Erddig and the Work of William Price', Apollo 122, October 1985, p. 259, the window illustrated fig. 13).



The drawing seems too highly finished to be a working design; perhaps it was executed for a prospective patron of St Bartholomew’s or as a record of the newly-completed window. The appearance of the figures, whose dress and facial hair are typical of the Stuart period, suggests a date of execution in the 17th century.

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