Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, Alcuin and Charlemagne, 1898
stained glass, 159 x 64 in.
Four vertical register memorial window composed as follows:
Top: fanlight shaped lunette panel in elaborate scrolling Renaissance Revival style foliate interlace composition in gold, blue and green.
Middle: Figural register depicting Alcuin and Charlemagne reviewing a book in a library. Both are standing full figure in medieval garb. The king is crowned and Alcuin holds a book with both hands. Jewel tones with red and blue the most prominent colors.
Bottom: Dedication panel in large horizontal ovoid cartouche rendered in gold and jewel tones.
2011.01.01
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The original sketch for this window was done by Fredrick Wilson circa 1893.
Alcuin was the English man-of-letters who assisted Charlemagne in founding a royal academy.
Per Priscilla Throop: ""the background is the still extant Palatine Chapel at Aachen.""
Source Institute: Pardee Hall
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA
Crown Ducal (after Joseph Andrews, after Peter Frederick Rothermel), Dinner Plate: Landing of the Pilgrims, from the series Colonial Times, 1930-1940, ca.
glazed earthenware, 10 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 in.
Ceramic transferware dinner plate; ivory with blue color printed pattern, circular, scalloped rim with circular well; rim with diamond and foliate printed pattern and vignettes, each depicting native american and pilgrim imagery: Pocahontas Saving Life of John Smith; American Indian; Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor; Return of the Mayflower. Central image depicts Landing of the Pilgrims. Reverse image depicts Pilgrim Exiles.
2019.19.04
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Acquired for exhibition: A Band of Exiles on the Wild New England Shore; The Place of Peter Frederick Rothermel's The Landing of the Pilgrims in America's National Memory
March-May 2014
Additional documented makers: Gordon Pottery Works, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
Crown Ducal (A G Richardson and Co Ltd), Dinner Plate: Landing of the Pilgrims, from the series Colonial Times, 1930-1940, ca.
glazed earthenware, 10 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 in.
Ceramic transferware dinner plate; ivory with blue color printed pattern, circular, scalloped rim with circular well; rim with diamond and foliate printed pattern and vignettes, each depicting Indigenous Americans and pilgrim imagery: Pocahontas Saving Life of John Smith; American Indian; Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor; Return of the Mayflower. Central image depicts The Landing of the Pilgrims aka Plymouth Rock, 1620 (c1869) Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895, artist; Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873, engraver. Reverse image depicts Pilgrim Exiles.
2019.19.04
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Acquired for exhibition: A Band of Exiles on the Wild New England Shore; The Place of Peter Frederick Rothermel's The Landing of the Pilgrims in America's National Memory
March-May 2014
Source Institute: UNKNOWN
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA