Sketch for memorial window of morning glories, Congregational Church, Northampton, Massachusetts, designed for Mrs. L.K.D. Bannister
Louis C. Tiffany American
Attributed to Agnes F. Northrop American
Tiffany Studios
Not on view
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.
