Volume II: Examples of Ancient Pavements, Tiles and Mosaics, c1860, researched, drawn...

This collection comprises scale drawings, tracings and paintings made by George Maw from mediaeval floors found in various Italian Cathedrals, English Abbeys and churches during the years 1861 to 1863. They are numbered in sequence, but there is no key to these in the index. The numbering that follows refers to a double page spread, which may display four or more designs. 1997.4278.1

AND 1997.4278.2 (loose pages )

1. Scale drawing of pavement in St Mark's, Venice, with some full sized tracings - v.delicate - of the cloister and vestibule

Signed G. Maw August 1861.

2. Cloister and vestibule, centre panel of pavement, coloured

3. Cloister and vestibule, section of pavement

4. Cloister and vestibule, section.

Facing page: Entrance cloister at bottom of steps, parts of small panels

5 to 9. As above

10. As above, less care in execution

11. Cloister and vestibule, black and cream.

Facing: Entrance cloister, red, black and cream

12. Some fragments of Cloister entrance

Facing: Part of segmented panel, Entrance cloister and entrance pavement

13. Cloister and vestibule pavement

14. As above.

15. As before, less care in execution

Small coloured plan showing placing of motifs in overall floor design

16. Numbered and coloured tracing but position not named

17. Large numbered section of coloured mosaic, position not named

18. As above

19 to 22 As above, damaged, colouring incomplete.

23. Body of Church, near the pulpit. July 1861, St Mark's Venice.

24. Body of church, tiles, mosaic and marble

25. Ten sections of tiled pavement, partly coloured

26. Pavement, west chancel, panel between cloister and body of the church July 1861, St Mark's Venice, signed GMaw

27. Scale drawing of pavement in front of altar. Marble tessarae Torcello Cathedral, nr Venice, signed GMaw

Facing: Chancel, Torcello Cathedral August 1861

28. Damaged pieces

The chancel of Torcello Cathedral, marble tessarae

29. Torcello Cathedral, nr Venice. Side panels of chancel pavement

30. Further panels - chancel pavement

31. Torcello Cathedral. Filling of spandrels "R", chancel pavement

Facing: Rosette at intersection of panel division in body of church

32. Murano Cathedral, W.Venice, side panels, tile and variegated marble

33. Murano Cathedral (both pages) Tessarae, light and dark

34. Scale drawings showing various parts of floor in mosaic and tile Novara Cathedral July 1861

Facing: damaged sheets - design of mosaic floor

35. Large damaged drawing. Pavement in the nave, Novara Cathedral August 1861

36. Large damaged drawing. Part of chancel, black and cream, Novara Cathedral

37. Large mosaic designs, part of chancel pavement, Novara Cathedral

Facing: Scale drawing, sacristy of Novara Cathedral showing mixed tessarae in all the various shades

38. Large damaged mosaic designs, numbered but not named

39. Scale plan: Pavement in front of Thomas a' Beckett's Shrine, Canterbury Cathedral, lettered and numbered. GMaw Nov 15th 1862

40 to 42 numbered sections developed from the above

43. Scale plan, mosaic pavement in front of the altar, Westminster Abbey, Dec 1862

Sections numbered and partly coloured

Facing: enlargement of central section

44 to 69 Further enlargements of numbered sections from the above

70. Scale drawing. Portion of mosaic pavement in Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey (dated 1260) signed GMaw March 1863

Facing: An enlarged section from the scale drawing

71 to 78 As above

79. Glass and gold mosaic from the Tomb of Henry III, Westminster Abbey, designed by Cavallini, 1272

80. Scale plan. Mosaic pavement in front of altar, Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdelene, Ripon - 12th Century

Facing: Pavement of High Altar, Fountains Abbey, Ripon

81 and 82 Damaged sheets: Pavement, Fountains Abbey

83. As above.

Facing page. Tile pavement at Duncombe Park around fifty years ago (drawing dated October 1863) from front of High Altar, Rivaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

84. Rivaulx Abbey pavement moved to Duncombe Park, enlarged

85. Scale plans, Fountains Abbey, Ripon.

Geometrical tile pavement. Farmhouse at Rivaulx Abbey.

Facing: enlarged design.