- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Heaton, Clement J. (Clement John), 1861-1940
- Title:
- Clement Heaton Collection on Stained Glass
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sn009x79c
- Dates:
- 1917-1932
- Size:
- 13 boxes and 6.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-13
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Clement Heaton (1861-1940) was an artist, stained glass painter, sculptor, and mosaicist. His collection consists of material concerning the making and history of stained glass compiled by Heaton. Included are files of original artwork and photographs of stained glass and monuments, many notes, articles, and some correspondence on general studies in Medieval and Gothic art, craftmanship, glassmaking, and cathedrals.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of material concerning the making and history of stained glass compiled by Heaton, an English artist and glass worker who moved to the United States sometime after 1911. Included are files of original artwork and photographs of French, German, English, Rhenish, and Italian stained glass and monuments representative of the 12th to 16th centuries, and many notes, articles, and some correspondence on general studies in Medieval and Gothic art, craftmanship, glassmaking, and cathedrals, such as Heaton's article "The Decadence and Disappearance of Glass Painting..." and "Stained Glass in the Making," an address given at Princeton University in 1924.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Heaton, Clement J. (Clement John), 1861-1940
Clement Heaton (1861-1940) was an English artist, stained glass painter, sculptor, and mosaicist, who moved to the United States sometime after 1911. In 1924, Heaton gave the address "Stained Glass in the Making" at Princeton University.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was purchased from Mr. Maurice Heaton, executor of the estate of Clement Heaton, in 1941.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Kelly Rafey '16 and Nicholas Williams '15 in 2012 and 2013.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Clement Heaton Collection on Stained Glass; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sn009x79c
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-13
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- Subject Terms:
- Art, Gothic.
Art, Medieval.
Artists -- United States -- 20th century.
Cathedrals -- England.
Cathedrals -- France.
Cathedrals -- Germany.
Glass painters -- England -- 20th century.
Glass painters -- United States -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Gothic -- England -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Gothic -- France -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Gothic -- Germany -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Medieval -- England -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Medieval -- France -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Medieval -- Germany -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Renaissance -- Europe -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining, Renaissance -- Italy -- 20th century.
Glass painting and staining. - Genre Terms:
- Articles.
Correspondence.
Drawings.
Photographs.
