The Work:- Window of two Lights, each with two Lights in Tracery over of Angel musicians.
Date:- 1907
Location:- Wath, Melbery, Yorkshire
Subjects:- (l) Jesus and ? (r) ?
Inscriptions:- (l) “Lead kindly light amid”. (r) “The encircling gloom”.
Dedication:- (l) “To the Glory of God &” (r) “In memory of”.
To the Glory of God & in loving memory of John Thomas Pearson of Melmerby born September 21 1821 Died September 14 1904
………………………………………………………………..
Back of the cartoon/sketch has Glasby’s Kensington address overwritten with Putney.
Also:- “Exhibited at Royal Academy 1908”.
The cartoon is on thick paper, not the usual card.
……………………………………………………………………
Dave Webster provided a lot of information for us:
John Thomas Pearson of Melmerby born September 21 1821 Died September 14 1904.
The 1901 Census shows him as living at Melmerby Hall, a retired manufacturing chemist and JP.
The man on the right is carrying a staff and fits with the traveller motif of Lead Kindly Light? Note the purple clouds of “encircling gloom”.
Dave Webster kindly gave us photographs of the actual windows
See also:
(c) David Webster
Jane Grenville also provided this photograph:
(c) Jane Grenville 2021
(c) John Collins and Erika Szyszczak July 2021
Comments