American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 103
in his subsequent work, of what ispractically a new material, — opal glass. He had, while still engaged on the frescos of Trinity,begun to make a small colored window from specimen pieces of glass which he had collected,combined with thin slices of onyx and other semi-precious stones to give the… … Fig. i —Design for Harvard Memorial Window.By John La Farce.—Drawn by Will H. Low. AMERICAN ART 601 tried to get the glass-makers to make himsome in panes. The process was perfectlysimple, but was not apparently believed in.The window was abandoned. Next came the commission for the Harvardmemorial…
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