Bernard Rackham: A Bibliography of His Works
Fig. 1: Bernard Rackham in 1950.
In our last issue, we were treated to a detailed and lively account of the life of the pioneering stained glass scholar, Bernard Rackham (Vidimus 129). This month, Roger Rosewell provides us with a full bibliography of Rackham’s published writings, books, articles and reviews, to allow those of us whose appetite has been whetted to explore this fascinating figure’s thoughts further.
‘A List of works by Bernard Rackham relating to stained and painted glass’, was published in the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, Vol. IX, No.2 (1944), pp 61-62. This Bibliography corrects and supersedes that list. It does not include unpublished papers.
Books
A Guide to the Collections of Stained Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Ceramics, London, Board of Education, 1936.
The Ancient Glass of Canterbury, published for the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral by Lund Humphries, London, 1949.
The Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury Cathedral: A Guide for visitors and students, published by the S. P.C.K. 1957.
Articles and Reviews about pre: 1700 stained glass
‘A stained glass panel from Landshut at the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 36, March 1920, pp. 104, 108-110.
‘The Pierpont Morgan Gift of ancient stained glass to the British nation’, The Landmark, (monthly magazine of the English-Speaking Union), Vol. 2, July 1920, pp. 461-65.
‘A Franconian glass panel at South Kensington’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 46, April 1925, pp. 182-85.
‘English glass-paintings of St Edmund at South Kensington and Dorchester’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 47, August 1925, pp. 86-88.
[Contribution to discussion] ‘Extracts of papers read before the Society; – (III) Methods of Protecting and Preserving Stained Glass’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 44-45.
‘Extracts of papers read before the Society; – (IV) Stained glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. 1,No. 2, , 1925, pp. 47-48. Includes comments by Rackham regarding the authenticity of an Italian panel depicting the Annunciation acquired by the Museum in 1858.
Fig. 2: Annunciation scene, Italian, possibly Venetian, c.1300 © Victoria & Albert Museum London.
‘The Italian Annunciation in the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. I, No.3, October 1925, pp. 24-5. Article by Rackham in response to follow-up letters to the above in which he insists the panel is authentic and not a fake. [Fig. 2]
‘The glass of Winchester College Chapel’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. I, No.4, April 1926, pp. 23-24. Discusses whether six crowned ‘H’ initials in the border of a panel from the College in the V&A collection might refer to Henry IV.
[Review] Das ehemalige Cisterzienserkloster Maris Stella bei Wettingen und seine Glasgemälde, by Von Hans Lehmann, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. II, No. 1 1927, pp. 42-44. Discusses the glass at Wettingen Abbey.
‘English importations of foreign stained glass’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glasspainters, Vol. II, No. 2, 1927, pp. 86-94. Includes a reprint of the account books of J. C. Hampp.
[Letter] ‘Bruges stained glass’, Daily Telegraph, November 9th, 1927.
[Review] ‘English Stained Glass’ by Herbert Read, Spectator Litt. Supp., December 4th, 1927.
‘The early stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 52, January 1928, pp. 33-41 and 106.
[Letter] ‘A Stained Glass Panel from Canterbury’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 52, Feb 1928, p.106.
‘The Ashridge stained glass’, Old Furniture, Vol. V, September, 1928, pp. 33-7.
[Review] ‘Early Austrian glass-painting’, Gotische Glasmalerei in Österreich bis 1450, by Franz Kieslinger’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 54, March 1929, pp. 156-57.
‘Stained glass in the collection of Mr. F.E. Sidney, Part I, Swiss glass’, Old Furniture, Vol. VII, August 1929, pp. 223-230.
‘Stained glass in the collection of Mr. F.E. Sidney, Part II, Netherlandish and German medallions’, Old Furniture, Vol. VIII, September 1929, pp. 13-19.
‘The glass-painter Lukas Zeiner of Zurich and his school’, Old Furniture, Vol. VIII, October 1929, pp. 55-60.
[Art Notes] ‘Roundel of late Gothic glass acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum’, The Collector ,Vol. XI, November, 1930.
‘The ancient stained glass at Lindsell Church’, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. XX, Part 1, 1930, pp. 73-77.
‘The stained glass of the Chapel of the Holy Blood at Bruges’, Actes du XIIe Congrès international d’histoire de l’art, Bruxelles 20-29 septembre 1930, pp. 424-431.
‘The glass-paintings of Coventry and its neighbourhood’, The Walpole Society, Vol. 19, 1930-31, pp. 89-110.
‘Austrian stained glass at South Kensington’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 56, June, 1930, pp. 291-93.
‘Canterbury Cathedral North Transept window’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral Sixth Annual Report, 1933, pp. 32 -37.
[Review] Ancient stained and painted glass, by F. S. Eden, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 63, October 1933, p.186.
‘The newly-replaced glass in the Trinity Chapel’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral Seventh Annual Report, 1934, pp. 29-33.
‘Notes on the stained glass in the Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. LVII, 1935, pp. 266-68.
[Review] Essays in the history of the York school of glass-painting by John A. Knowles, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 70, March 1937, p. 149.
[Review] Stained glass of York Minster by Canon F. Harrison; Vitraux Des Cathédrales de France XII et XIII siécles, by Paul Claudel and Marcel Aubert, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 72, February, 1938, pp. 98-99.
‘Ancient stained and painted glass’, address given to the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral on 17th June, 1939, Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle, No. 35, 1939, pp. 22-33.
‘The east window of Becket’s Crown’, Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle, No. 36, 1940, pp. 3-6.
‘The stained glass in the Chapel of the Holy Blood at Bruges’(Reprinted from Actes du XIIe Congrès international d’histoire de l’art, Bruxelles 20-29 septembre 1930, but with a different illustration), Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. VIII, April 1940, pp. 45-50.
[Letter] ‘Genealogical windows at Canterbury Cathedral’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 78, May 1941, pp. 165-66.
[Letter] ‘Winchester to Warwickshire’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 80, February 1942, p. 50. Mentions figure of King Joash from Winchester College acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1921.
Fig. 3: Seventeenth-century window at Compton, Surrey.
‘A seventeenth-century window at Compton, Surrey’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. VIII, No. 4, 1942, pp.133-36. [Fig. 3]
‘The Jesse window at Llanrhaiadr, Denbighshire’ (with C.W. Baty), Burlington Magazine, Vol. 80, March 1942, pp. 62-66 and May 1942, pp. 121-124.
‘Further notes on the early glass-paintings’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral Fifteenth Annual Report, 1942, pp. 29-31.
‘The Great West Window’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Sixteenth Annual Report, 1943, pp. 30-32.
[Letter] ‘The Jesse Window at Llanrhaiadr’, Burlington Magazine, Vol 82, February, 1943, p. 51.
[Review] Die romanischen Glasgemälde des Strassburger Münsters, by Fridrjof Zschokke, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 83, August, 1943, p. 208.
‘An early Glass Panel Retrieved’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Seventeenth Annual Report, 1944, pp. 15-17.‘The Mariawald-Ashridge glass’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 85, November 1944, pp. 266-273.
‘The Mariawald-Ashridge glass – II’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 86, April, 1945, pp. 90-94.
‘The Dream of King Henry – a stained glass medallion’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Eighteenth Annual Report, 1945, pp. 31-32.
‘The Ashridge stained glass,’ Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Ser. 3, Vol. 10, 1945/47, pp. 1-22.
[Review] La Resurrection d’un Maitre d’Autrefois: Le Peintre-Verrier Arnoult de Nimegueo by Jean Lafond, Rouen 1942, and Pratique de la peinture sur verre á l’usage des curieux suivie d’un essai historique sur le jaune ďargent, et d’une note sur les plus anciens verres gravés’, by Jean Lafond, Rouen 1943. Burlington Magazine, Vol. 89, July 1947, pp. 198-200.
‘Old Glass Reinstated’, Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle, No. 42, 1947, pp. 20-23.
‘The East Window of the Chapel of Trinity Hospital, Greenwich’, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-painters, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1947-48, pp. 4-8.
[Review] Ontwikkeling en Karakter der Oude Monumentale Glasschilderkunst, by Anton van der Boom, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 89, June 1947, p. 171. Includes a survey of stained glass in Holland.
[Review] Le Vitrail en France, by Marcel Aubert, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 90, February, 1948, pp. 54-55.
[Review] Stained Glass in Somerset, by Revd Christopher Woodforde, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 90, May, 1948, p. 153.
[Letter] ‘The Imaginary Museum’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 90, July, 1948, p. 209. Rackham discusses colour photography of stained glass and how stained glass should be displayed in museums.
‘The Crucifixion: a Stained Glass Medallion Reinstated’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Twenty-first Annual Report, 1948, p. 31.
[Letter] ‘Florentine Painted glass’, Burlington Magazine, Vol.92, April, 1949, p.114. BR argues that the early windows at Canterbury Cathedral were executed from design provided by MS Illuminators.
‘The Stained Glass of Guildford Guildhall’, Surrey Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Vol. 51, 1950, pp. 97-101.
[Letter] ‘The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral,’ Burlington Magazine, Vol. 92, December, 1950, p. 357.
[Review] ‘The Norwich School of Glass-Painting in the Fifteenth Century’ by Christopher Woodforde, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 93, July, 1951, p. 243.
[Review] De glasschilderkunst in Belgiê: repertorium en documenten. II by Jean Helbig, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 93, November, 1951, p. 365.
[Review] The Stained Glass of New College, Oxford by Christopher Woodforde, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 94, March, 1952, pp. 90-91.
[Letter] ‘The Resurrection of a Fourteenth-Century Window’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 94, July, 1952, p. 209. BR responds to an article about stained glass in York Minister which mentions the discovery of silver staining.
‘The Ancient Windows of Christ’s College Chapel, Cambridge’, The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 109, 1952, p. 132-142.
‘Supplementary Note on the Windows of Christ’s College Chapel, Cambridge’, The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 110, 1953, p. 214.
[Review] English Stained and Painted Glass, by Christopher Woodforde, The Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3-4, 1954, pp. 260-261.
‘A newly restored window in the Trinity Chapel’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 1954, pp. 14-15.
[Letter by BR to FCC cited] ‘The Jesse window’, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Twenty-eighth Annual Report, 1955, p. 19.
[Review] L’art du XIVe siècle en France’, by Louise Lefrançois-Pillion, suivi d’un chapitre sur le vitrail, par Jean Lafond, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 97, Nov, 1955, p. 357. BR’s review includes a summary of Lafond’s chapter on stained glass.
[Review] Italian Stained Glass Windows, by G. Marchini, The Antiquaries Journal ,Vol. 38, no. 1-2, 1958, pp. 125-126.
‘The Ancient Stained Glass at St. John’s, Stoke-next-Guildford’, (with H.W. Pointer), Surrey Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Vol. 55, 1958, pp. 18-31, 4 plates.
[Review] ‘Stained Glass in France’, review of Le Vitrail Francais, with contributions by Chastel, Grodecki, Gruber and others, produced in conjunction with an exhibition in Paris, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 101, 1959, pp. 194-197.
[Review] ‘Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Deutschland Bd. I, 1. Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Schwaben von 1200-1350, by von Hans Wentzel,’ Burlington Magazine,Vol. 101, 1959, p 360.
[Review] ‘Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Deutschland Bd. I, 1. Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Schwaben von 1200-1350, by von Hans Wentzel’, The Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 40, Issue 1 -2, April 1960, p. 89.
‘Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral by Bernard Rackham: Corrigenda and Addenda 1960’, Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle, No. 55, 1960, pp 16-19.
[Letter] ‘Mr Samuel Caldwell’, The Times, September 16th 1963.
‘Mr Samuel Caldwell,’ (reprint of letter to the Times 16th September 1963), Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle, No. 58, October 1963, p. 10.
Other articles about stained glass
[Review] Adventures in light and colour, an introduction to the stained glass craft, by Charles J. Connick, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 72, May 1938, p. 246.
‘Glass painting as an art for today’, Artwork, Vol, II, October-December, 1925; January-March 1926; Summer 1926.
‘Stained glass windows by Miss W. M. Geddes’, The Studio, Vol. XCVIII, September 1929, pp. 682-3.
