Contents: A Stained Glass Masterpiece in Victorian Glasgow: Stephen Adam’s Celebration of Industrial Labor

Lionel Gossman

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Introductory Material

• Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Maryhill Burgh Halls Album

Part I.

• “Cinderella to her Sister Arts.” Reflections on the Standing of Stained Glass as Art.

Part II. Stephen Adam’s Work in Historical Context

• Chapter 1. The Revival of Stained Glass in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 2. Charles Winston on Stained Glass
• Chapter 3. Stephen Adam on Stained Glass

Part III. The Maryhill Burgh Halls Panels

• Chapter 1. Stephen Adam: The Early Years and the Glasgow Studio
• Chapter 2. “A man perfects himself by working”
• Chapter 3. An Original Style. Realism and Neo-Classicism in the Maryhill Panels

Appendices

• Appendix I. “The Maryhill Panels: Stephen Adam’s Stained Glass Workers” by Ian R. Mitchell
• Appendix II. “’Always happy in his Designs’: the Legacy of Stephen Adam” by Iain B. Galbraith
• Appendix III. Chronology of Works in Stained Glass by Stephen Adam

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