Design for two windows, "Te Deum Laudamus"

Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Frederick Wilson

1900 · Watercolor and gouache in grisaille, pen and white ink, and graphite · The American Wing

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.

Artist

Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Frederick Wilson

Date

1900

Medium

Watercolor and gouache in grisaille, pen and white ink, and graphite

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967