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Feeding the hungry, stained glass panel, Netherlandish, c.1600
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Feeding the hungry, stained glass panel, Netherlandish, c.1600
Clear glass with dark brown paint
Height: 245 mm
Width: 185 mm
Width: 185 mm
Museum number: SG70
On display: Monk's Parlour
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
A wealthy couple and child, surrounded by attendants and accompanied by a greyhound, direct a servant to give bread to an old man and a young couple with a baby. In the distance an old couple walk to their humble cottage in a landscape with a river, hills and a slender round-topped tower. The panel is from a series of the Acts of Mercy. Sheltering the Strangers, SG69, is a companion piece.
Others examples in the same series are Giving Drink to the Thirsty at St John's, Saxmundham (Suffolk), together with a version of Sheltering the Strangers (called by Cole Welcoming the Strangers), in which Christ is shown in the background.
Others examples in the same series are Giving Drink to the Thirsty at St John's, Saxmundham (Suffolk), together with a version of Sheltering the Strangers (called by Cole Welcoming the Strangers), in which Christ is shown in the background.
Literature
William Cole, A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain. Oxford: OUP for The British Academy, 1993
Catalogue of the Stained Glass in Sir John Soane's Museum, Special Issue of the Journal of Stained Glass 2004, p 197
Catalogue of the Stained Glass in Sir John Soane's Museum, Special Issue of the Journal of Stained Glass 2004, p 197
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