Includes:
Newspaper cutting from The Observer entitled 'The Vatican', 17th February 1916.
Newpaper cutting from The Daily Mail entitled 'The Letters of an Englishman. Mr Purdy sees through it', 26th January 1918. Includes observations following a speech delivered at Nottingham on the war with Germany.
14 copies of the front page of The War Illustrated weekly newspaper, October 1915-January 1916.
'Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'. Bank Holiday edition of the Comic newspaper, 1st April 1899.
Includes:
Yorkshire Herald, 18/5/1915, as well as a facsimilie of the 2/1/1790 copy produced as a supplement that day;
Three copies of the Methodist Recorder and General Chronicle, dated 15/7/1922, 22/7/1922 and 29/7/1922;
Three copes of the Yorkshire Bazaar Flying Post, dated 4/10/1864, 5/10/1864 and 6/10/1864;
Copies of the Yorkshire Herald, dated 3/9/1881, 5/9/1881, 6/9/1881 and 7/9/1881.
Four plates. First is of a window depicting man and woman kissing. Second is of a window depicting marriage. Third is of a window depicting baptism(?) of a woman. Fourth is of a window depicting three male figures.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Six plates. The first and second show the upper and lower parts of window light depicting St Christopher carrying Christ child. Third and fourth images show the upper and lower parts of window light depicting unidentified saint on plinth. Fifth image show
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)2 plates. Glass plate negatives of upper and lower parts of a stained glass window, depicting a crowned female saint with book and palm(?). Medieval.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two different images showing crowned female heads, of very similar design. Medieval.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes one notebook relating to his works on windows, one printed 'Military Police and War Department Constabulary' containing nites and addressses, and one reporters note book entitled 'Catalogue' containing some pencil sketches and a catalogue of books relating to artists or books about artists.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)A collection of newspaper cuttings about the York Minster windows.
Handwritten notes about church glass.
For Reverend Horne. Cost £483.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings about stained glass.
Reproduction of pages 208-9 of York Memorandam Book - The Ordinances of the Glasiers (146 3/4); reproduction of book, page unknown - Des Verrours glasiourz (Fr.?).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Original drawings compiled by J A Knowles and retained in an envelope entitled 'Vestibule and Chapter House'.
Frontal, for Thorp Arch.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Four plates. First and second are identical, showing painted panels of St Paulinus & St Edwin. Third is of Bede and St Cuthbert. Fourth is of St Hilda and St Chad. (Third and fourth as in KNO/24/522, but with names of saints visible).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Three plates: First showing two male saints (Bede and St Cuthbert), second and third showing one male and one female saint (St Chad and St Hilda).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Windows: 1) 17th century(?) male figure; figures with spears on horseback outside a city. 2) One male figure poised to stab another with an angel in the sky above them (Abraham and Isaac?) Dated 1544. 2 images.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Four celluloid plates. Plates 1 and 2: identical images of medieval stained glass - various (portions of faces, torsos, hands, a lion.). Plates 3 and 4: identical images of medieval stained glass - various (fragments of text, flowers, patterns etc).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Papers collated by either J W Knowles or his son J A Knowles relating to classic architecture. Includes handwritten notes, newspaper cuttings, engravings and copies of 'A theoretical and practical treatise on the five orders of architecture.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Originally labelled 'Vergers', the bundle contains one handwritten covering note and 10 photographs, presumably of the Minster vergers. Also includes one newspaper cutting dated 1908 regarding Mr Herbert Stansfield being appointed junior verger at the Minster.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)The house, 'Beach-holme', was the family holiday home of J W Knowles and his family for a number of years.
Includes:
Visitors book to the house featuring photographs of the building and notes from visitors who came to stay. Included amongst the signatures are the parents of English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth;
Letter re income tax on the property, 1910;
Newspaper cuttings book re Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby (including details of author Leo Walmsley who used to stay in the area and played cricket with J W Knowles); 1905-1964.
Includes:
Programme for the congregation day luncheon (2 copies);
Bundle of tickets and programme for Miss J E Knowles to attend the ceremony;
Four newspaper cuttings relating to the awards ceremony.
Also includes handwritten accounts from 1859 to 1899.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes:
Catalogue for the Leeds Corporation Exhibition of Yorkshire Artists, 1885;
Catalogue for the Municipal Art Gallery, Leeds, Spring Exhibition, 1891;
Catalogue for the Yorkshire Union of Artists Sixth annual exhibition, The Spa, Harrogate, 1893;
Catalogue for an exhibition of pictures at West Cliff Saloon, Whitby, 1896;
Catalogue for the City Art Gallery Leeds Yorkshire Union of Artists Exhibition, 1908-9;
Rules of the Yorkshire Union of Artists, 1888;
Yorkshire Union of Artists report, balance sheet, list of donors, list of members and list of prize-winners, 1888;
Six tickets for Yorkshire Union of Artists exhibitions, 1888-1890;
Two letters from representatives of the Yorkshire Union of Artists to J W Knowles, 1890-91;
Yorkshire Union of Artists list of governing body, council's address, report for 1890, minutes of conference, membership list and balance sheets, 1889 and 1892;
Notifications of annual general meetings of the Union of Artists, 1889-1890
Newspaper cuttings relating to the Union.
The bundle contains handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings compiled by J W Knowles, relating to York streets, buildings and people.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two plates - identical photo of metal pendant gas lamp suspended from above (as in KNO/24/557).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)The black and white images are most likely from projects J W Knowles and Sons worked on, including St Cuthbert window (York Minster), Wragby Church, St William window (York Minster), St Chad, Lady Chapel windows (York Minster), Parker window (most likely York Minster), Penancer's window (York Minster), Peter de Dene window (York Minster), Bell window (York Minster), Cartmel Fell, Clerestory (York Minster), Nave (York Minster), South Aisle Choir windows (York Minster), Bowett window (location unknown), Great East Window (York Minster), St Saviour's Church East Window, St Martin's Coney Street (window destroyed in the Blitz), St Dennis (Denys) Church, St Helen's church, St Michael-le-Belfrey, glass by Peckitt in Bishopthorpe Palace, Bolton Percy East Window, St Michael's Spurriergate, St Martin's Micklegate, Holy Trinity Goodramgate, All Saint's North Street, Gilling Castle (signature of Bernard Dunninghoff), Merchant Taylor's Hall, Denton in Wharfedale, Great Malvern, St Gyles (Camberwell), Bardwell Church (Suffolk), Saxlingham Nethergate Church (Norfolk), Malvern Priory, Little Malvern, Winscombe (Somerset), Hawsker Church, Deerhurst (Gloucestershire), Wolveden Window (York Minster) and Essars Church. The images are generally details or panels rather than full windows. Also includes details of stained glass techniques and condition, and copies of stained glass window designs from books and secondary sources.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two plates. One with six reproduced images of paintings by Holbein, Raphael & Feuerbach; one with four images by Reubens & Morillo.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two plates: images of pitted, degraded stained glass.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Glass plate negative photos of plaster saints - the Virgin Mary, St John, and both figures together.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Made by Keith & Co. Three plates. Identical images of the open case with items of four piece communion set in front of it - chalice, paten, pyx, cruet.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)The Divide Comedy of Dante, comprising inferno, purgatorio and paradiso, illustrated by Gustav Dore and retained by J A Knowles. Parts 15-27 only.
The volume includes a full print of the text of the essays, as well as handwritten annotations by John Alder Knowles and pasted-in black and white and colour illustrations. In the front of the volume is a collection of 14 letters regarding the publication of the volume.
Eight unopened printing blocks with images of the contents on the outside of each packet.
The plates are very small and fragile, and each is individually wrapped in paper.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)The blocks vary in the details that they show, and may be from a number of different windows.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Three blocks - one showing the entire east window and two showing details of panels.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Reproduction of prints from a French book: Fig 10. - Psyché prête à se venger de ses soeurs (Psyche ready to take revenge on her sisters); Fig 11. - Le roi et la reine déplorant la beauté de Psyché (the King and Queen lamenting the beauty of Psyche).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes twelve prints from woodcut drawings mounted onto card. The prints depict various scenes, including harvest time, wine making, bread making etc and show the figures in medieval dress.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Stained glass depicting man playing backgammon in an inn, surrounded by women. Medieval. From Lasteyrie, 'Histoire de la Peinture sur verre'.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)The programmes were collected by John Ward Knowles, who was a member of the Society. Also includes some newspaper cuttings.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Negative photo images - fragments of glass covered in enamel(?).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)2 plates. Two reproductions of the same page of a book describing how to make purple glass, with footnotes describing how to make glass of other colours.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes images of York, including Lendal Bridge, Holy Trinity Goodramgate and the Guildhall, as well as a photograph of the Temperance Hotel, Aberconwy.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes eight images of Jane Knowles (nee Annakin) wife of John Ward Knowles.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Reproductions from print: 1. diagram of a medieval kiln; 2. line drawings of medieval sculptors and painters (one female); 3. two line drawings of knights, from stained glass windows; and 4. diagram of a domed medieval glassmakers kiln.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Six plates. First and second are different versions of the same image - Jesus(?) with hand raised and book. Third and fourth are different images of angels praying, holding thuribles(?).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Image of reredos, depicting Jesus flanked by five kneeling angels holding thuribles. 2 copies.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Folio 484. 139 letters.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes about Robin Hood's Bay
Four plates. First and second are identical, showing painted panels of St Mary, holding a lily. Third and fourth are identical painted panels of St Nicholas(?) holding crosier and three balls(?).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two plates and one photographic postcard. The plates show stained glass windows, before and after images of Christ in a garden with his disciples, 'And in loving memory of these windows are'. After image with more detail on robes and lettering repaired. T
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings collected by J A Knowles regarding York Artists. Originally contained in an envelope marked 'York Artists - Volume 1 (in alphabetical order).'
Individual handwritten notes referring to properties in Goodramgate.
1) Standing (male?) figure labelled 'labor', kneeling, richly dressed female figure labelled 'dolor'. 2) Male and female figures (naked, with bound wrists) PAVPERTAS ADAM ET EVE CREDVLITAS. 3) Seven richly dressed female figures, city in background. 4) Lo
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Three photos from different angles of same metal alms dish. Cross and fleur-de-lis design in centre, 'As I have loved you that ye also love one another' written around rim.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Also gilded and carved angels for Reverend P C A Carnegy.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Somewhat faded images of parts of windows - 1) St Christopher carrying the Christ child, 2) unclear, 3) multi-panel, unclear, 4) multi-panel, unclear, 5) multi-panel, unclear.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Includes two sketchbooks containing pencil drawings of J W Knowles, apparently as family holidays, as well as one volume of coloured and pencil sketches for window commissions.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)A bound book of artwork and designs.
Wooden triptych with Jesus holding a chalice, flanked by two angels or saints. One is holding the crown of thorns, one holding bread.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Marked as 'before restoration.' One glass plate negative and one transparency. Glass plate depicts stained glass coat of arms, fractured, with part of border missing. Transparency depicts same coat of arms, restored.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)All plates are depicting sections of stained glass window. Two have the same image - photo of part of window, multi-panel with sun and coat of arms design at the bottom. All plates are moderately to severely faded.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)First window from the from West. 2 plates.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Some of the plates are particularly badly damaged and will require conservation. Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Two plates. Negative images of two different stained glass windows (from St Michael-le-Belfrey?).
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Plates 1 and 2 depict same image of four lights with male saints and kings in the upper parts, family crests and praying figures (donors?) below. Plate 3 shows four lights of a stained glass window, depicting Jesus, St Peter, and two other male saints, and possible donor figures at prayer below. Plate 4 shows four lights depicting St George, and St Christopher carrying the Christ child, with family crests beneath. Plate 5 shows four lights of a stained glass window depicting St Peter and three others (St William?) and family crests below.
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)Originally held in a box marked 'Knowles Wooden box plates 28.'
Knowles; John Ward (1838-1931)