Presentation Window, "William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania"
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This work depicts a tangled profusion of flowering branches in full sunlight as if viewed from below against a field of blue sky. Hill was undoubtedly working in accordance with Ruskin’s observation that the most beautiful position in which flowers could be seen was the most natural one—flowering plants against grass or moss, and fruit-tree blossoms against the sky.
Caption
Frederick Stymetz Lamb American, 1862–1928; The J. and R. Lamb Studios. Presentation Window, "William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania", ca. 1905. Glass, lead, wood, 32 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (82.6 x 62.2 x 4.1cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Adrian Lamb in memory of his father, Frederick Stymetz Lamb, 1989.180. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1989.180_PS9.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Designer
Title
Presentation Window, "William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania"
Date
ca. 1905
Geography
Place manufactured: New York, New York, United States
Medium
Glass, lead, wood
Classification
Dimensions
32 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (82.6 x 62.2 x 4.1cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
Partial label affixed to upper part of wooden frame on recto ". . . & R LAMB / Ecclesiastical and Memorial Art Workers / 23-25-27-Sixth Avenue . . . New York."
Credit Line
Gift of Adrian Lamb in memory of his father, Frederick Stymetz Lamb
Accession Number
1989.180
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Frequent Art Questions
I'm really drawn to the line work in the skin tones of this stained glass piece. I haven't noticed this in other stained glass pieces before. Could you tell me more about this work?
This was an innovation by Lamb Studios that they called "double-painted glass" and was often used for flesh areas of figures in the stained glass windows. This involved painting two plates of different types of glass with separate colors of vitreous enamel that shine through each other for a rich, lifelike effect.Who is this?
That is William Penn, Quaker and founding father of the state of Pennsylvania. This window was probably shown to the leaders of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn Heights, for approval to proceed with the extant, large window titled "William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania" that the Stained Glass Studio executed for the church. Penn is depicted in this window because, like Plymouth Church's first pastor, Henry Ward Beecher, he too was an early opponent of slavery. This gives the subject social meaning for the congregation.
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