Angels & Icons Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870 (Hardcover)

The British Isles has an outstanding collection of stained glass. It has always been recognised that the glass of the medieval period in Britain is among the finest to be found but the glass of the 19th century has never been justly regarded. These islands initiated the revival of the true principles of glass construction which developed into the fabrication of some of the best windows in existence. Pre-Raphaelite stained glass has, in recent years, come to mean glass by Morris, Burne-Jones and Rossetti. However there was a group of artists who were designing windows before the foundation of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. William Waters's extensive research complimented by Alastair Carew-Cox's sympathetic plate camera photography, aims to redress the balance and illustrate the work of these designers. Angels & Icons includes an informative gazetteer to help readers to locate and discover these beautiful windows for themselves.