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Virgin & Child glass panel
Glass engraver: Hutton, John Campbell
Engraved glass panel.
Rectangular clear glass panel with wheel-engraved design of Madonna and Child, the figures three-quarter length and full-frontal, the mother seated, the child’s knees drawn up onto her lap and her arms enclosing him. The features are quite stylised, but with form to the bodies. The heads are surrounded by spiky halos and the whole image framed by an inverted ‘V’ shaped line, representing a veil. The panel is framed in dark wood, with an integral metal stand.
History note: Purchased directly from Hutton or his dealer by John Simon; inherited by his son, Jacob Simon
Given by Jacob Simon
Width: 32 cm
Width: 41.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2018-01-29) by Simon, Jacob
20th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1958
A similar but larger and full length panel is in the V & A collection.
Hutton developed his own techniques to give his engravings the graininess and shading of chalk drawings rather than the clear and restrained lines of traditional glass etchings. First, he sketched in chalk on black paper (see PD.14-1982). Then, placing the sketch behind the panel, he engraved the outline using a dentist's drill adapted with a small grinding wheel and completed the image with a series of much larger stone wheels powered by an electric motor, controlling the dust with a moistened sponge. Parts of the design might be polished with felt and emery paper to reduce opacity or to enhance form. Sometimes the outlines would be masked off and sand blasted before the engraving.
John Hutton (1906-1978) was born New Zealand and came to England in 1936, working mainly as a muralist. During wartime army service he met Basil Spence and Stephen Sykes, and later worked with them on the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. Hutton designed and engraved sixty larger-than-life figures for the 21.5 metre-high glass Great West Wall; it took 10 years to complete the project, for which this panel may be a study. Other major glass engraving commissions followed, including Guildford Cathedral, the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-on-Avon and 37 panels for the Canadian National Library & Archives, Ottawa. In 1975, Hutton became the first Vice President of the British Guild of Glass Engravers.
Visible Glass
Height 62 cm
Frame
Height 71.3 cm
Decoration
Accession number: C.2-2018
Primary reference Number: 223097
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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