Design for two windows, "Te Deum Laudamus", Procession of Sts. Ambrose & Augustine

Designer Frederick Wilson American, born Ireland
1900
Not on view
This sketch for a memorial window illustrates the procession of St. Ambrose and St. Augustine to the baptistery in Milan where Ambrose baptized Augustine in a.d. 367. According to legend, at this event the The Deum hymn was sung for the first time. The design for St. Ambrose, depicted in the left window, was reused two decades later for the installation of a large mosaic in the First Methodist Church of Los Angeles, the last project Wilson did for Tiffany Studios.

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Object Information
  • Title: Design for two windows, "Te Deum Laudamus", Procession of Sts. Ambrose & Augustine
  • 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 Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902)
  • Date: 1900
  • Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin USA
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Watercolor and gouache in grisaille, pen and white ink, and graphite
  • Dimensions: 11 1/4 × 12 3/16 in. (28.6 × 31 cm)
    Other (Design): 6 1/4 × 3 9/16 in. (15.9 × 9 cm)
    Mat: 14 1/4 × 19 1/4 in. (36.2 × 48.9 cm)
    Framed (AW B): 16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (41.3 × 54 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.654.456
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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