William Penn Stained Glass Window in the Brooklyn Museum, August 2007

Designer: Frederick Stymetz Lamb

Maker: The J. and R. Lamb Studios

Title: Presentation Window, "William Penn, Peace Movement, Pennsylvania"

Date: ca. 1905

Medium: Glass, lead, wood

Dimensions: 32 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (82.6 x 62.2 x 4.1cm)

Accession # 1989.180

Marks: 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
Location American Identities: Everyday Life / A Nation Divided

Description: Window, stained glass (colored and painted leaded glass), black-painted wooden frame. Window consists of two layers of leaded glass. Central bust-length male figure with shoulder length brown hair, wide brimmed blue hat and coat in blue, pale purples and white articulated with four large buttons and darker blue neck ruff. Secondary male figure with moustache and shoulder length brown hair behind proper left shoulder of central figure. Background in blue/greens and white. Reverse: faces rendered in grisaille. Clothing in dark blue/black and brown with white neck ruff in molded glass panel. Background, upper right, squared green glass panels, large brown panel to left, framed in 2 1/2" black painted wood frame. Condition: Fair; two cracks in black pane, center-right, 8" from bottom; single crack in another black pane, center-right, 8" from bottom; crack to top of central white molded pane. Conservation report on file.

Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/luce/object.php?id=122372