"Sketch for Memorial Window, [Second] Congregational Church, Northampton, Mass"

Designer Attributed to Agnes F. Northrop American

ca. 1905

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 692

In this design for the Second Congregational Society (now the Unitarian Society) in Northampton, Massachusetts, a wreath of morning glories encircles a view of a mountainous horizon and vines trail down a trellis to frame the couplet by Cardinal John Henry Newman: “And with the morn those angel faces smile / Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.” Northrop’s delicate rendering of the flowers and leaves of the morning glories and her light, almost sketchy treatment of the landscape give the design an ethereal quality appropriate for a memorial window. Though an inscription on the drawing reveals that the window was commissioned by Mrs. L. D. Bannister, the lettering “In Memoriam” is not followed by a name and does not appear in the executed window.

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Title: "Sketch for Memorial Window, [Second] Congregational Church, Northampton, Mass"
Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Designer: Attributed to Agnes F. Northrop (American, Flushing, New York 1857–1953 New York, New York)
Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
Date: ca. 1905
Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin United States
Culture: American
Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 18 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (46 × 25.7 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
Object Number: 67.654.94
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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