Nine panels were originally designed by Burne-Jones for Woodlands: `Venus', `Evening Star',` Saturn', `Jupiter', `Luna', `Earth',` Sol', `Morning Star' and `Mars'. The cartoon for `Morning Star' is at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; the cartoon for `Mars' is at Birmingham City Art Gallery; and the remaining cartoons are at Torre Abbey in Devon. The entry in the Catalogue of Designs, dated 1879, names the glass painters as follows: `Venus', `Evening Star' and`Sol' by Bowman; `Saturn', `Jupiter',` Luna' and `Earth' by Fletcher; `Morning Star' and `Mars' by Egan. There are three relevant entries in Burne-Jones' account book: (i) dated 18th August, 1878: `1st four figures of Planets £15 each viz. Venus, Luna, Morning and Evening Stars. £60` (ii) dated 22nd August, 1878: `Two more, namely Saturn and Mars, £30'; and (iii) dated 1st November, 1878: `Figures of Earth, Jupiter, Apollo £45'. Each is marginally annotated in another hand `Woodlands'. According to Sewter, the only other commission to have included this group of subjects was for Hume Towers in Bournemouth, Hampshire in 1901. This house was hit by a flying bomb during the Second World War and it is recorded that of the twenty-one windows made for the house, only eight survived. None of this group was among them. Sewter states that he `found no clue as to the whereabouts of Woodlands'. However, further research reveals that it was a large mansion on the outskirts of Bradford, built in 1866 for Angus Holden, several times Mayor of Bradford and later Member of Parliament for Bradford East. The Holden family moved to Nunn Appleton Hall in 1890 and Woodlands was subsequently demolished in 1899. The whereabouts of the windows since this time was until now unknown. Sotheby's 2008
The style of the leading is that of post 1890 therefore it could be a survivor from Hume Tower Bournemouth or from an as yet undiscovered location.
Jupiter is part of an extensive series of stained glass windows made by Morris & Co. in 1901 for Hume Towers, Branksome Road, Bournemouth, which was the home of Sir William Earnshaw Cooper K.B.E., C.I.E. (1843-1924). This series included seven lights depicting the Morning Star, Evening Star, Sun and Moon, along with Mars, Jupiter and Venus, for the upper section of a large Library window. The Hume Towers window was a later version, from cartoons by Burne-Jones for Morris & Co., which were originally made in 1879 for ‘Woodlands’, the unidentified home of a ‘Mr Holden’. The Hume Towers series differed from the 1879 ‘Woodlands’ series in having seven instead of eight figures (the Saturn from the earlier sequence was omitted). According to A. C. Sewter (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 25), the scheme of glazing for Hume Towers was listed in Morris & Co.’s Catalogue of Designs in April 1901. It would appear that the glass-painting of the Jupiter panel was carried out by one of the firm’s craftsmen named ‘Walters’, who can be identified as Robert Walters (b. 1853) and who was employed by Morris & Co. from 1893 to 1902. Sewter recorded that the Morris & Co. scheme of glazing at Hume Towers was badly damaged by a flying bomb during the Second World War and that only eight figure panels (from a total of twenty-one, including the seven in the Library window) survived. However, subsequent research by the late Donald J. R. Green revealed that the bombing took place in November 1940 – i.e. before any flying bomb attacks on Britain – and that at least twelve panels remained relatively undamaged, of which the Jupiter panel is presumably one. Hume Towers was sold to a property developer and demolished in 1966, at which time (or possibly earlier) the surviving stained glass was salvaged and dispersed. We are grateful to Peter Cormack for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.