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Mariana and Christabel

Ref: 1849
  • Designer / Painter / Maker

    The design attributed to F. Vincent Hart

    Painted by William J. Nelson

    Manufactured/retailed by Daniel Cottier (1837-91)

  • Detail

    Stained glass and lead

    32 cm (diameter)

    English, circa 1880

  • Provenance

    Private collection, Longbranch, New York

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    ‘Mariana

    Her tears fell with / the dews at even / Her tears fell ere the / dews were dried / She could not look on / the sweet heaven / Either at morn or / eventide

    (Tennyson)’

    From Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mariana (1830).

    ‘Christabel

    She folded her arm / beneath her cloak / And stole to the / other side of the oak / What sees she there?

    (Coleridge)’

    From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel (1797-1800).

    We are grateful to Max Donnelly for details of the designer and painter of these windows.