M. E. Aldrich Rope
M. E. Aldrich Rope, eigentlich Margaret Edith Rope (* 29. Juli 1891 in Leiston, Suffolk; † 9. März 1988 in Bungay, Suffolk), war eine englische Glasmalerin in der Tradition der Arts-and-Crafts-Bewegung, die zwischen 1910 und 1964 tätig war. Sie war eine Cousine von Margaret Agnes Rope aus Shrewsbury, einer weiteren englischen Glasmalerin derselben Tradition, die von 1910 bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg tätig war. Im Vergleich zu ihrer Cousine war Margaret Edith die produktivere Künstlerin mit einem Ansatz, der sich in ihren späteren Jahren von einem erkennbaren Stil der Arts-and-Crafts-Schule zu etwas Einfacherem und Modernerem entwickelte.[1]
Leben
Margaret Agnes und Margaret Edith Rope waren Cousinen und hatten dieselben Großeltern, George Rope (1814–1912) und Anne (geborene Pope) (1821–1882) aus Grove Farm, Blaxhall in Suffolk. Margaret Edith Rope war das fünfte Kind von Arthur Mingay Rope (selbst das fünfte Kind von George und Anne, 1850–1945) und Agnes Maud (geborene Aldrich, 1855–1943). Sie hatte eine Reihe von künstlerischen Verwandten in Leiston und Blaxhall, Suffolk. Neben ihrer Cousine Margaret Agnes hatte sie einen Onkel, George Thomas Rope, einen Landschaftsmaler und Naturforscher, die Tante Ellen Mary Rope, Bildhauerin, und die Schwester Dorothy Anne Aldrich Rope, ebenfalls Bildhauerin. Ihr Spitzname in der Familie war Tor für Schildkröte, und sie benutzte eine Schildkröte, um einige ihrer Fenster zu signieren, besonders in ihren späteren Jahren.
Sie besuchte die Wimbledon High School, die Chelsea College of Art and Design und die Central School of Arts and Crafts des London City Councils, wo sie sich unter Karl Parsons und Alfred Drury auf Glasmalerei spezialisierte. Ab etwa 1911 arbeitete sie im Glass House Fulham mit ihrer Cousine Margaret Agnes zusammen, zum Beispiel an den Fenstern für die Kirche St Peter and Paul in Newport in Shropshire. Um sich von ihrer gleichnamigen Cousine zu unterscheiden, benutzte sie den Berufsnamen M. E. Aldrich Rope (der den Mädchennamen ihrer Mutter enthält) oder M. E. A. Rope. Einer ihrer Freunde war der Kirchenarchitekt J. Harold Gibbons, und diese Verbindung führte zu ihrem ersten großen Auftrag für die St. Chad’s Church in Far Headingley, Leeds, die zu ihren größten Werken zählt.
Während eines Großteils ihres aktiven Künstlerlebens lebte sie in verschiedenen Häusern in der Deodar Road in Putney, die zu dieser Zeit eine Art „Künstlerkolonie“ war. Um 1926 zog sie in das Haus Nr. 61, das auch von Caroline Charlotte Townshend und Joan Howson bewohnt wurde. Sie war eine enge Freundin von Wilhelmina Geddes. Später, im Zweiten Weltkrieg, zog sie in das Haus Nr. 81, bis es ausgebombt wurde. In der Nachkriegszeit wohnte sie in Nr. 89, wo sie ein Atelier, eine Werkstatt und einen Brennofen hatte (der auch von Rachel de Montmorency genutzt wurde).[2]
Sie teilte sich das Haus mit Clare Dawson, einer Freundin und Schülerin. In ihrem späten Leben wurde sie römisch-katholisch. Mitte 1978, im Alter von 87 Jahren, verließ sie Putney und kehrte nach Suffolk zurück, um auf dem Bauernhof der Familie zu leben. Sie starb am 1988 im Alter von 96 Jahren an den Folgen einer langwierigen Alzheimer-Krankheit.
Werke
Ropes künstlerisches Schaffen, das sich über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 50 Jahren erstreckte, war größtenteils für anglikanische (vor allem anglokatholische) Kirchen, aber auch für einige wenige römisch-katholische Kirchen. Eine detaillierte Gesamtaufstellung aller Werke befindet sich auf der Webseite der Familie.[3]
„Erschaffung der Welt“,
St Chad in Far Headingly, Leeds, 1922
Verkündigungsszene unterhalb des Kreuzigungsfensters,
St Mary Magdalene in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, 1929
Detail einer Alltagsszene im Fenster zum Heiligen Paulus (der Hund stellt den Hund dar, der zum Zeitpunkt der Herstellung des Fensters dem Pfarrer gehörte),
St Augustine, Haggerston, London, 1933
Literatur
- Peter Cormack: Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. London Borough of Waltham Forest, London 1985, ISBN 0-901974-22-6, S. 12–14.
- Peter Cormack: Obituary: Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (1891–1988). In: Journal of Stained Glass. Band XVIII, Nr. 3, 1988, S. 319–20 (org.uk).
- Peter Cormack: Arts and Crafts Stained Glass. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 2015, ISBN 978-0-300-20970-9, S. 285–6.
- Arthur Rope: Margaret Rope of Leiston, Stained-Glass Artist in the Arts & Crafts movement. Eigenverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5262-0132-4.
Weblinks
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ Alle Informationen sind, sofern nicht anders angegeben, der aufgeführten Literatur und der Familienwebsite entnommen, siehe Arthur Rope: Life of M. E. Aldrich Rope (Tor). privat, abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2021.
- ↑ ROPE, Margaret Edith 1891–1988. Suffolk Artists, abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2021.
- ↑ Arthur Rope: List of works of M.E.Aldrich Rope (Tor). privat, abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2021.
| Personendaten | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rope, M. E. Aldrich |
| ALTERNATIVNAMEN | Rope, Margaret Edith |
| KURZBESCHREIBUNG | englische Glasmalerin |
| GEBURTSDATUM | 29. Juli 1891 |
| GEBURTSORT | Leiston, Suffolk |
| STERBEDATUM | 9. März 1988 |
| STERBEORT | Bungay, Suffolk |
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Autor/Urheber: Amanda Slater from Coventry, West Midlands, UK, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
'Eight Titles of Mary', St Mary's, Bourne Street, Chelsea by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (Tor).
(I have just discovered that this lady was educated at my first school ....... so of course I will now make a point of looking for her work).
The Rose Window depicting eight titles of Our Lady is a memorial to Fr Humphrey Whitby, Vicar of St Mary’s from 1916-46. It replaced a window destroyed by bombing during World War Two.
Clockwise. Turris eburnea - Tower of ivory Stella matutine - Star of the morning Foederis arca - Ark of the covenant Speculum justitiae - Mirror of righteousness Janua coeli - Gate of heaven Vas honorabile - Vessel of honour Domus aurea - House of Gold Rosa mystica - Mystic rose
The window was designed by Margaret Edith Rope (1891–1988). Rope studied under Alfred Drury at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and went on to work at Lowndes & Drury, the firm he founded with Mary Lowndes (who designed the west window). She was a friend of the architect J Harold Gibbons through whom she obtained a number of commissions and who designed the font.
To distinguish herself from a cousin of the same name, also a stained glass artist, she used the professional name ME Aldrich Rope but was known to her family as 'Tor', short for tortoise. Some of her work is signed with this creature although, alas, not at St Mary's.
The two stained glass artists named Margaret Rope were first cousins, granddaughters of George Rope of Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk (1814-1912) and his wife Anne (née Pope) (29/3/1821-1/10/1882). Neither married: both were baptised Anglicans but died Roman Catholics.
The younger Margaret was the 5th child of Arthur Mingay Rope (himself George and Anne's 5th child: 1850-1945) and Agnes Maud (née Aldrich: 1855-1943). She was born on 29th July 1891 and christened Margaret Edith at St Margaret's Church, Leiston, Suffolk on 25th August. She died in March 1988.
Born into a farming family at Leiston on the Suffolk coast, Margaret Edith Rope found herself among artistic relatives at Leiston and Blaxhall, Suffolk: her uncle, George Thomas Rope, landscape painter and Royal Academician; her aunt Ellen Mary, sculptor; sister Dorothy, also a sculptor. In the family, her nickname was "Tor", for tortoise. She was later to use a tortoise to sign some of her windows.
She was first educated by an aunt and later at Wimbledon High School, Chelsea School of Art and LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts (where she specialised in stained glass under Karl Parsons & Alfred J. Drury).
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Crucifixion with St. Mary Magdalene and St. Etheldreda by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope.
Centre Light: The Crucifixion: on either side of our Lord, the Blessed Virgin and Saint John. On the ground is the spear with which our Lord’s side was pierced and the sponge on a reed with which the soldiers offered him vinegar to drink. The shield over the cross has on the emblem of the Trinity. At the extreme top of the light are three small circles. The centre one is the Chalice and Host. In the left hand circle is the seamless robe and in the right hand circle the dice with which the soldiers cast lots for the robe. In the circle underneath the Crucifixion is the Annunciation. The Angel Gabriel appearing to the Blessed Virgin with the message that she is chosen to be the mother of the Incarnate Son of God and her acceptance and answer, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” The Holy Spirit in the form of a dove is on the right of the circle. On a quarry above the circle are the letters “J.M.” Jesus, Mary. On the very small circle at the bottom of the light in the border is the word “AVE”, the first word of the Angel’s salutation.
The two stained glass artists named Margaret Rope were first cousins, granddaughters of George Rope of Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk (1814-1912) and his wife Anne (née Pope) (29/3/1821-1/10/1882). Neither married: both were baptised Anglicans but died Roman Catholics.
The younger Margaret was the 5th child of Arthur Mingay Rope (himself George and Anne's 5th child: 1850-1945) and Agnes Maud (née Aldrich: 1855-1943). She was born on 29th July 1891 and christened Margaret Edith at St Margaret's Church, Leiston, Suffolk on 25th August. She died in March 1988.
Born into a farming family at Leiston on the Suffolk coast, Margaret Edith Rope found herself among artistic relatives at Leiston and Blaxhall, Suffolk: her uncle, George Thomas Rope, landscape painter and Royal Academician; her aunt Ellen Mary, sculptor; sister Dorothy, also a sculptor. In the family, her nickname was "Tor", for tortoise. She was later to use a tortoise to sign some of her windows.
She was first educated by an aunt and later at Wimbledon High School, Chelsea School of Art and LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts (where she specialised in stained glass under Karl Parsons & Alfred J. Drury)._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1155294.jpg)
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Everyday details in stained glass window (Haggerston). This is a detail from a window in the entrance of St Saviour's Priory, Haggerston. It is from one of a series of "Saint" windows originally at St Augustine's, Haggerston. The dog also appears in another window in the series, now at St Mary Magdelene, Munster Square, 1155271 and represents a dog that belonged to the parish priest at the time that the window was made.
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The Redemption of Creation by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope.
The window tells the story of Creation vertically with the water creatures at the bottom, land creatures in the middle with Adam and Eve (and the serpent) and then the angel band. The virgin Mary and infant Jesus are above them and then right at the top the Heavenly City in a blast of scintillating light.
The two stained glass artists named Margaret Rope were first cousins, granddaughters of George Rope of Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk (1814-1912) and his wife Anne (née Pope) (29/3/1821-1/10/1882). Neither married: both were baptised Anglicans but died Roman Catholics.
The younger Margaret was the 5th child of Arthur Mingay Rope (himself George and Anne's 5th child: 1850-1945) and Agnes Maud (née Aldrich: 1855-1943). She was born on 29th July 1891 and christened Margaret Edith at St Margaret's Church, Leiston, Suffolk on 25th August. She died in March 1988.
Born into a farming family at Leiston on the Suffolk coast, Margaret Edith Rope found herself among artistic relatives at Leiston and Blaxhall, Suffolk: her uncle, George Thomas Rope, landscape painter and Royal Academician; her aunt Ellen Mary, sculptor; sister Dorothy, also a sculptor. In the family, her nickname was "Tor", for tortoise. She was later to use a tortoise to sign some of her windows.
She was first educated by an aunt and later at Wimbledon High School, Chelsea School of Art and LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts (where she specialised in stained glass under Karl Parsons & Alfred J. Drury).
Autor/Urheber: amandabhslater, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.0
The Nativity by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope.
The two stained glass artists named Margaret Rope were first cousins, granddaughters of George Rope of Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk (1814-1912) and his wife Anne (née Pope) (29/3/1821-1/10/1882). Neither married: both were baptised Anglicans but died Roman Catholics.
The younger Margaret was the 5th child of Arthur Mingay Rope (himself George and Anne's 5th child: 1850-1945) and Agnes Maud (née Aldrich: 1855-1943). She was born on 29th July 1891 and christened Margaret Edith at St Margaret's Church, Leiston, Suffolk on 25th August. She died in March 1988.
Born into a farming family at Leiston on the Suffolk coast, Margaret Edith Rope found herself among artistic relatives at Leiston and Blaxhall, Suffolk: her uncle, George Thomas Rope, landscape painter and Royal Academician; her aunt Ellen Mary, sculptor; sister Dorothy, also a sculptor. In the family, her nickname was "Tor", for tortoise. She was later to use a tortoise to sign some of her windows.
She was first educated by an aunt and later at Wimbledon High School, Chelsea School of Art and LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts (where she specialised in stained glass under Karl Parsons & Alfred J. Drury).
Autor/Urheber: AndyScott, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
Fulham, All Saints Church, Lady chapel window. By Margaret Edith Rope
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St. Paul and St. Margaret at St. Saviour's Priory, Haggerston, London.
London Saints with everyday scenes of East End life. Originally made by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope, 'Tor', for St Augustine's Haggerston, London, this series of eight windows are now relocated. Six are in the crypt of St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square and St Paul and St Margaret are at St Saviour's Priory, Haggerston.
The two stained glass artists named Margaret Rope were first cousins, granddaughters of George Rope of Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk (1814-1912) and his wife Anne (née Pope) (29/3/1821-1/10/1882). Neither married: both were baptised Anglicans but died Roman Catholics.
The younger Margaret was the 5th child of Arthur Mingay Rope (himself George and Anne's 5th child: 1850-1945) and Agnes Maud (née Aldrich: 1855-1943). She was born on 29th July 1891 and christened Margaret Edith at St Margaret's Church, Leiston, Suffolk on 25th August. She died in March 1988.
Born into a farming family at Leiston on the Suffolk coast, Margaret Edith Rope found herself among artistic relatives at Leiston and Blaxhall, Suffolk: her uncle, George Thomas Rope, landscape painter and Royal Academician; her aunt Ellen Mary, sculptor; sister Dorothy, also a sculptor. In the family, her nickname was "Tor", for tortoise. She was later to use a tortoise to sign some of her windows.
She was first educated by an aunt and later at Wimbledon High School, Chelsea School of Art and LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts (where she specialised in stained glass under Karl Parsons & Alfred J. Drury).