Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 224
desirable thing to be donewas, to acknowledge the win-dow opening, which, exceptfor this pretence, the colourof the design effectually does.A frequent and equally typi-cal arrangement was, wherethe light was long enough, tomake the base itself take theform of a low canopy over amore or less… … mg more important figure, which,by its size and breadth ofcolour, asserted itself at a dis-tance from which the smallersubject appeared only a massof broken colour. The pro-portions and outline of such a143. fairford. subject are indicated by the Nativity on page 54, the jagged line at the top of…
Glass painting and staining
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