433: Mosaics over North Window West side of Narthex

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/3/2/10
Level Item
Dimensions 33 x 38.6 cm
Dates 1890?
Donor/Creator Weir Schultz, Mr Robert
Barnsley, Mr Sidney Howard
Scope and Content BRF 01/01/04/152. Watercolour illustration showing an arched area with two window holes, with three full-sized saints and three heads and upper torsos of saint, each with words painted beside them. Title painted in window holes reads "Mosaics over north window" and "west side of Narthex"; the same is written in pencil on the card base under the image. Some further annotations in pencil. Byzantine Research Fund copyright stamp, with the original archive number written in, in the lower right partly overlapping the image. Some traces of original brown card frame visible on right side. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Mosaics in lunettes over north and south windows in west wall of narthex; north, full-length, SS. Irene, Catherine, Barbara; medallions, SS. Euphemia, Marina, Juliana; south, full-length, Agatha; below SS. Anastasia, Febronia, Eugenia. The north and south walls of the narthex each have one lunette; the east and west, each three; a detail from one of the east wall scenes is illustrated, 425 above."
Related records [BRF/1/1/4/152], Katholikon - Hossios Loukas, 1890?