The images are arranged with a view to highlighting how certain themes of concern to Victorian society were communicated, such as civilizational advancement, material improvement, moral and spiritual edification, the pioneering impulse, and the appropriation and symbolic reassignment of local contexts (such as non-European flora and fauna). These images are accompanied by a short analytical overview, supported with critical commentaries on each image (or set of images). This photoessay presents a number of carefully chosen images of stained glass, found both in Britain and its former colonial empire, in order to provide an impression of the range and type of window that engaged colonial/imperial subject matter during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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