Dear Miriam
Thank you for your suggestions. The RIBA was a new line of enquiry which I
shall follow-up and also the new CVMA book on Lincolnshire which I did not
know about.
Thank you again
Best wishes
John H Hall
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From: M.C. Gill <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 14 September 1999 14:53
Subject: Re: Painting of a Tree of Jesse window
> Dear John,
> Sorry this is rather late on your search for a lost watercolour. You
> have probably tried all the things I am about to suggest, but here
> goes, just in case.
>
> The Society of Antiquaries have an index to material in local
> historical and antiquarian periodicals which might refer to your
> tracing, its arranged by county and then place.
>
> They also have a large number of watercolours, drawing and engravings
> catalogued and held in their collections.
>
> Other major collections worth checking with are the British Library,
> the RIBA, the Victoria and Albert Museum Prints and Drawings room and
> the RCHME.
>
> It might also be worth asking a couple of people working on stained
> glass, eg. with Corpus Vitrearum or RCHME if they know where Strutt
> deposited his drawings and papers.
>
> I cannot think of any scheme in which a whole glazing scheme was
> devoted to a Tree of Jesse, but it doesn't sound too improbable.
> Most of the stuff I know about stained glass Jesse Trees is
> fourteenth-century (see especially the recent Corpus Vit volume on
> Lincolnshire).
>
> Sorry not to be more precisely helpful, perhaps other list members
> will have some ideas.
>
> With Best Wishes
>
> Miriam
>
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