Cartoon for window, Wycliffe, St. John's Chapel Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wilson created this imposing cartoon, a full-scale adaptation of an original sketch, for a window in the north aisle of St. John’s Chapel at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It depicts the fourteenth-century reformer and theologian John Wycliffe, best known as the figure behind the first complete translation of the Bible into English. Although Wilson worked for Tiffany Studios until 1923, it is possible he made this cartoon for a competing firm: the realized window has an allover painted decoration and bears Wilson’s signature, both unusual features for a window by Tiffany Studios. The thick dark blue lines indicate the locations of the grooved lead bars or “cames” that would receive individual pieces of glass.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cartoon for window, Wycliffe, St. John's Chapel Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
- Designer: Frederick Wilson (American (born Ireland), Dublin 1858–1932 Los Angeles, California)
- Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Date: 1912
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and powdered charcoal for pouncing
- Dimensions: 34 5/8 × 20 1/8 in. (87.9 × 51.1 cm)
Mat: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Framed (AW F): 44 3/4 × 34 3/4 in. (113.7 × 88.3 cm) - Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.654.300
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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