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Vigilance, Design for a Stained Glass Window

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Tall, vertical composition with top arched. Center, man in a helmet holding a spear and shield. He stands facing slightly to the right. Foliage left and right. Stars above, showing Big Dipper constellation. Vigilance written on base below, twice. Border of rosettes.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Artist
Francis Augustus Lathrop, (American, 1849–1909)
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
45.7 × 11.3 cm (18 × 4 7/16 in.)
Type
architecture
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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