Unidentified
St. Barbara before a Cityscape
1514
Physical Qualities
White reamy glass, yellow silver stain, and paint, 8 3/4 in. diam. (22.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1941.399.2a
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1941; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1941; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1941; Gimbel's, New York; William Randolph Hearst, New York, by purchase 1927; Joseph Brummer, New York; Harding, London, after 1924; Sneyd Family, Keele Hall, Staffordshire, after 1842; Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, by purchase 1747-1750
Strawberry Hill sale, 1842, pp. 239-241, lot no. 20, 29, 31 or 34?
"Old English and French Furniture, Porcelain and Objects of Art being a portion of the Sneyd Heirlooms removed from Keele Hall, Staffordshire," Christie's, London, 26 June 1924, lot 64.
"Catalogue of the Collections of William Randolph Hearst," Greenville, NY: C. W. Post Center of Long Island University, Special Collections Library, ms. [International Studio Art Corp.], 1939, vol. III [Stained Glass], lot no. 138, art. 23
"Art Objects and Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection," Gimbel Brothers (with Saks Fifth Avenue and Hammer Galleries), New York, 1941, lot 138-23, ill. 145.
Michael Peover, 'Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, Horace Walpole's Stained Glass,' "Country Life," 26 October 1995, pp. 54-57.
'Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collection: Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist IV),' "Studies in the History of Art," Vol. 39. WDC: National Gallery of Art, p. 91, ill.
Maker
Unidentified
On View: Jacobs, Gallery 6
