Description: This beautiful Black Lip Shell pendant hangs on a hand beaded Necklace Cord and is hand painted as a famous Stained Glass by Harry Clarke the Virgin & Child by Russian Artist Zemina. Size of the pendant is 6 (2 3/8 inches) diameter, total length of the necklace is around 46 cm or 18 inches. NANTWICH, St Mary. Harry Clarke. One of very few windows in England designed by Harry Clarke. This dates from 1919 and represents the Virgin & Child with St Cecilia on the left and Richard Coeur de Lion on the right, and is in memory of Mildred Clare Knowles who died in 1913 (and loved music, hence St Cecilia) and of her son, Richard Knowles who was killed in action in 1918. Detail of the Virgin Mary and Child. Harry Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Clarke moved to London to seek work as a book illustrator. Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (much of his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. Difficulties with these projects made Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen his first printed work, in 1916. It included 16 colour plates and more than 24 halftone illustrations. This was followed by an illustrations for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: the first version of that title was restricted to halftone illustrations, while a second with eight colour plates and more than 24 halftone images was published in 1923.[4] This 1923 edition made his reputation as a book illustrator, during the golden age of gift-book illustration in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Clarke's work can be compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac. It was followed by editions of The Years at the Spring, with 12 colour plates and more than 14 monotone images; (Lettice D'O. Walters, ed., 1920), Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales of Perrault, and Goethe's Faust, with eight colour plates and more than 70 halftone and duotone images (New York: Hartsdale House,1925). The last of these is his most famous work, prefiguring the disturbing imagery of 1960s psychedelia.[4] Two of his most sought-after titles are promotional booklets for Jameson Irish Whiskey: A History of a Great House (1924, and subsequent reprints) and Elixir of Life (1925), which was written by Geofrey Warren. His final book, Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, was published in 1928. FREE UK POSTAGE!!! (We take IBAN payments as well as Paypal outside UK) We speak French, English, German and Russian. Please leave feedback once you have received the item so that I know it has arrived safely.I will leave feedback in return. Smoke & Pet Free Item Good Luck and Happy Bidding! Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
Price: 47.75 GBP
Location: Norwich
End Time: 2025-02-01T09:47:15.000Z
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
Style: Pendant
Material: Shell
Brand: Handmade
Type: Pendant
