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Three plates, showing three images of a similar seated male bearded figure, captioned Troyes (Aube), Vaudes (Aube), Herbisse (Aube).

For John Ferguson Esquire, Ripon.

Emblems and evangelists and Cawood Reredos.

Two plates: 1) reproduction of front cover, 'Catalogue of the Specimens of Stained Glass' painted by the Pearsons (as in KNO/24/336); 2) reproduction of pages 2 and 3 of same catalogue, listing works exhibited in the front room by Mr & Mrs Pearson.

The glass shows York Minster as an example.

Interior of St George's Church, York, showing stained glass window with crucifix altar and statues in front of it. 2 copies.

For Reverend Hayward.

The window is entitled 'Christ of the Doctors.' Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Photographic plates of clerestory windows, from differing angles.

One celluloid plate, with glass plates. All negative images of different sections of Clerestory.

Three colour designs by John Patterson, Art Master and headmaster of the York School of Design, retained by John Ward Knowles, who was involved with the school.

Mrs Hodgkinson.

Unidentified, but marked as 'good negative.'

Two plates: same photo image of Lady Chapel, St Wilfrid's Catholic Church, York.

Interior of St John's Church, Whitby. Two plates depicting different images of the reredos and surrounding area under construction, with scaffolding and ladders. The third plate shows the finished reredos and painting.

Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Two glass plate negatives: one reproduction from a German book, showing text with illustration of old lead rods; one line drawing of equipment and lead rods.

Contact prints. One image depicts a demon in stained glass, the other a lion. Medieval.

Also includes some session programmes.

Two half-plate enlargements of each. Two glass plate negatives: photos of a garden (possibly the York Medical Society?).

One plate shows an early modern(?) drawing or etching depicting a rifle range, with richly dressed men firing at targets. The other plate shows a negative image of a drawing or etching depicting two men in early modern(?) dress working in a glaziery.

East Wall of St John's Church, with reredos and painted wall (see also KNO/24/968). 2 copies.

Two plates of same image (just framed slightly differently.): reproduction of St Margaret's window, handwritten caption 'St Margaret's. Westminster. East Window. Reproduced from the composite photograph in the Victoria & Albert Museum by kind permission'

Two plates. First is of the lion and unicorn with 'Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God'. Second shows the lion and unicorn with 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, her children rise up and call her blessed'.

Two glass plate negatives, both with same image of coat of arms in a stained glass window.

John Alder Knowles enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Land Forces. Also includes a menu card for a dinner of the Cadets of No 5 Officer Cadet Battalion held on 30/3/1917.

2 plates. Reproductions from English books: 1) from York Minster, Isbister & co, p60, inc. sentence 'In 1371 the name of William de Auckland appears as Vitriarius, and it would seem that the Dean and Chapter always maintained such an official, with a wor

Two plates. Identical image on each: reproductions from page 27 of the catalogue(?), advertising 'devotional picture book'. Published by Plantin Press.

Example of repair piece: two different views of 15th century(?) female head; four different subjects got from two Cartoons - St William Window, York Minster: Panel 48. cures by holy oil exuding from shrine; Panel 62. blind and crippled coming to shrine.

Includes correspondence and photographs received by both John Ward Knowles and his son J A Knowles, concerning the British Society of Master Glass-Painters; Bringmann and Schmidt, German glass painters; and individual stained glass windows. The letters appear to have been acquired due to the Knowles' involvement in the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters.

Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Showing the earthquake and Sea Monsters Roaring. Also includes one postcard-sized photo, depicting the same image from the Prik of Conscience window.

Copy of a letter published in a book. Two images.

See also a nearly similar figure, Barton-on-Humber, in 'Drawings Old Glass.' Two plates. One plate shows St James with a book. Medieval. The other shows two kneeling figures (possibly donors?).

Bundle of printed articles and newspaper cuttings regarding stained glass in both England and abroad. It is thought that these articles may have informed J W Knowles' publications.

There is damage to all plates on one edge. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'

Catalogue of sale of a collection of old glass, with prices.

Photos of sections of stained glass window, multi-panel, subjects unclear. All plates are faded, some with separation of the emulsion around the edges.

Different images of stained glass panels - crowd scenes.

One plates shows a section of window, with a bishop(?) blessing crowd. The second shows a cartoon for part of design as half-visible in plate one - floral design with leaves in a star formation. Plate signed 'WK [?] 4. 95'.

Each plate depicts different bishops holding swords and shields. From facsimilies of the J Arundel example. In the Grosvenor Thomas collection.

Two photos (slightly different angles) of same metal font ewer with waves (? Topped with trefoils) and cross design (partially visible).

Includes: stained glass depicting man giving benediction gesture; circular stained glass panel depicting man in armour; stained glass depicting coat of arms; as third image, but smaller; stained glass depicting bishop(?); circular stained glass depicting

Four glass plate negatives, labelled 1) Lamport Church 2) Victoria & Albert Museum 3) Chesterfield Parish Church 4) In posession of JJ Hardshaw Esq. Birmingham.

Different photos of sections of stained glass window. Both plates faded and discoloured, one liquid-stained.

Three plates, each depicting a male saint (?) - one with keys, one with a sword, one with ferula.

Four plates, each depicting a male saint (?) - one with keys, one with a sword, one with ferula (as in KNO/24/514), plus one with ferula and mitre.

Reverend Deane, Harswell.

Also includes oak casket deposited beneath the altar.

One of the images is in very poor condition.

Now in Ettington Park.

Includes part of the Arms of Roos in stained glass; and two sets of leaf designs.

Specimen glass painting, shown in four stages. Two plates with the same four images on each plate. The plates are of a landscape in stained glass with varying degrees of detail added.

Cartoon of a Figure used for another subject. Woman poisoned by eating frog. Woman at the shrine. St William Window, York Minster. Two plates. One plate shows panels 66 and 67 of St William Window (Woman poisoned by eating frog and Poisoned woman at shrine, whilst the second shows panels 66 and 67 of St William window, and enlarged images of woman in each panel, clearly showing identical headdress and hand gesture.

Plates of Theophilus method of drawing cartoons on whitened board. Two plates - 1 ) photograph of wooden table with board on top, cartoon etched into board, pieces of glass ready to be joined together next to it; 2) image of cartoon etched out - bound male figure with crown and halo, being whipped by two other male figures.

Plates of a 16th century design for a stained glass window in National Gallery of Scotland. Two plates - same image of engraved, multi-panel design for large stained glass window depicting crucifixion, descent, resurrection.

The glass negative was used as an illustration in J W Knowles' 'A manual of glass painting.'

The glass negative was used as an illustration in J W Knowles' 'A manual of glass painting.'

Possibly an image under a microscope.

Interior of unidentified church and detail of stained glass window. HP.40 Tewkesbury [Abbey] - general view of window in ?quire (before restoration).

Includes details of stained glass windows at Bourges Cathedral, Bourges, France (AU.122); Musée de Cluny, Paris (St Timothy), Paris (AU.126); and St George's Church, Hanover Square, London (AU.130).

Unidentified details of stained glass windows.

?Plan of York Minster showing five western bays 1400-1420, four eastern bays 1361-1400, and the tombs of Archbishop Bowett d.1423, Wolveden Treasurer d.1432 and Prebendary Parker d.1423; Stained glass relating to martyrdoms, including the Bowett window (?York Minster), the murder of Becket in the fourth window from the east in the South Aisle of Lady Chapel (?Canterbury Cathedral), and a list of martyrdoms.

Set of slides showing glass making techniques and examples of stained glass including: no.4 carbonate and copper burnt in; no.7 modern and 12th century; no.10 Eraclius' 13th century glass painting recipe; no.11 Eraclius' recipe for glass painting 14th century; no.36 cartoons used twice, Église de la Madeleine, Aube, Troyes; no.38 curious old inscriptions on the walls of the Haunted Gallery; no.45 glass corroded leaving enamel intact; no.47 York Minster Fabric Rolls, abstract of 1421 roll; no.49 accounts relating to glass painting at York Minster 1371-1639 extracted from the Fabric Rolls; no.50 items in the Fabric Rolls relating to glass painting at York Minster 1471, 1577; transcript of indenture between the Dean and Chapter of York and John Thornton of Coventry, glazier for the glazing of the Great Window in the east gable of the choir of York Minster 10 Dec 1405; no.55 stained glass with inscription to Von Rosenbach 1588; no.61 Steelyard Wharf, London; no.63 Venetian Chart of the English Channel 1489; no.69 diagram to show continuity of design and practice in the York school of glass painting 1399-1529; no.70 ordinances of York, glass painters 1463-64; no.72 ordinances of York, glass painters c.1370; no.75B Prudde's scale of prices for various classes of work 1445-49; no.77 prodigal son playing blackgammon in half moon from Lasteyrie; no.79 stained glass at Limoges - fox preaching to cocks and hens; no.83 statues of Virgin and Child from Petite Chapelle St Jean etc; no. 93 1526 indenture, King's College, Cambridge; no.94 patent granted by Henry VI to John Utynam for manufacture of coloured glass, 1449; no.95. unidentified portrait; no.97 St William Window, York Minster c.1421: two of the donors (the Roos family); pane representing William's enthronization feast, St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no. 116 the monkey's funeral and fox running away with the goose, nave, York Minster; no.125 portrait of Henry Gyles, glass painter of York c.1646-1709 from mezzotint by Francis Place; no.127 image of glass painter's workshop; no.129 [?Self] portrait of Henry Gyles 1680-85, British Museum (Museum no. 1852,0214.372); map of London 1560 showing steelyard and Glaizers Hall, Fye Foot Lane; no.131 16th century window from 15th century cartoons, Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres, Aube department, France; no.139 title page of Waltyer Gedde's Booke of Sundry Draughtes 1615; no.164 unidentified; no.166 map showing England, France, Italy and Belgium; no.167 [York Minster, interior]; no. 168 plan [?of York Minster] showing system 'A' where only the windows nearest the spectator can be seen and system 'B' where all windows can be seen; no.169 [York Minster, exterior]; no.170 Choir, Gloucester Cathedral; no.171 example of an indenture; no.172 St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no.173 St William in Solitude, St William Window, York Minster c.1421; no.178 unidentified stained glass window with annotations; no.179 Corpus Christi Heads at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York and St Martin's Coney Street, York and Our Lord appearing to St Thomas at All Saints, North Street, York; no.184 East Window, Gloucester Cathedral; no.185 Fairford; no.187 York Minster - William de Auckland appears as Vitriarius in 1371 (extract from unattributed text); no.192 [?monkey funeral, nave, York Minster]

Stained glass designs. S.50 Salisbury Cathedral: detail of grisaille from a drawing.

Set of slides showing: no.2 unidentified; no.22 unidentified; no.26 unidentified; no.30 unidentified; no.31 stained glass with inscription to Jacob Sulger ?1670s; no.37 cartoons used twice, Vaudes, Aube Madeleine, Troyes; no.38 cartoon cut in two so as to miss the central figure, Vaudes Aube; no.59 window, north aisle, Nostell Church; no.71 extract from ordinances of the York glass painters 1463-64; no.81 (K) two Bishops thrown into Hell, Bourges Cathedral; no.82 (K) Monk first into Heaven, Bourges Cathedral; no.91 unidentified; no.100 St William Window, York Minster c.1421.