Design for Dean Memorial Window, "The Virtuous Woman," First Presbyterian Church of Rutherford, New Jersey
Louis C. Tiffany American
Designer Frederick Wilson American, born Ireland
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company American
Not on view
In contrast to highly finished watercolor designs, which were readily translated into cartoons, this sketch was almost certainly used as a preliminary draft. The trefoil-topped windows depict scenes from Proverbs 31:10–31, a passage celebrating the ideal woman as a virtuous and industrious mother who is honored by her family. In the left window, the bountiful grape harvest symbolizes the exemplary woman as resourceful and entrepreneurial. The middle scene represents a mother’s charity; she doles out bread to a hungry child as the spinning wheel and lamp in the background evoke her industriousness. In the window at right stand her adoring husband and children.
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