DESIGN FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW
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Design for a Memorial Window

John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)

1880–1900

Medium
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Classification
Figures (representations)
Dimensions
24.7 × 14.9 cm (9 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
Culture
USA
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Given by L. Bancel La Farge
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Unfinished project, showing two standing figures. Renaissance-type enframement with arabesques at top, flanking colonettes and inscriptional plaque below.