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Drawing for a cope for the Reverend Edward McCurdy [McCarty?], Saint Augustine's Church, Brooklyn, ca. 1890–1915
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)
American
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (1892–1902)
Watercolor, brown ink, and pencil, 20 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. (52.1 x 35.2 cm)
Inscriptions: (printed in pencil, lower right) Vestment for Rev.
E. McCurdy/ St. Augustine's Church/ Brooklyn
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
(67.654.427)
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Few of Tiffany's ecclesiastical textiles have survived. This highly detailed presentation drawing
depicts a cope intended for the Reverend Edward McCurdy [McCarty?], a priest of Saint Augustine's Church,
Brooklyn, from 1876 to 1925. The embroidery, a complex pattern of interlocking gold strapwork and stylized ivy
vines, is reminiscent of thirteenth-century ornament. The finished work would have been a sumptuously ornamented
vestment to be worn for processions and holy days.
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