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Design drawing for Cornell University Sage Chapel in Ithaca, New York. Upper, intra-ribbing: angels with cross. Lower, frieze: enthroned man, colorfully robed female figures with emblematic objects

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Design drawing for Cornell University Sage Chapel in Ithaca, New York. Upper, intra-ribbing: angels with cross. Lower, frieze: enthroned man, colorfully robed female figures with emblematic objects

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Annotations on drawing: CHS.
Mosaic Renown ecumenical Chapel built ca. 1873, designed by Charles Babcock, University's first architecture professor. Ruskinian English Gothic in style of Upjohn, Babcock's mentor and father-in law. Among earliest nondenominational university pulpits. Interior architecture by Charles Rollinson Lamb with Ella Condie Lamb, Frederick Stymetz Lamb and Chester Loomis. Henry Sage, benefactor Sage College, University's first women's dormitory. See Historical American Building Survey Call Number: HABS NY,55-ITH, 11B-. Studies, see Barea Lamb Seeley's "Ella's Certain Window: An Illustrated Biography of Ella Condie Lamb, An American Artist," 1998. See Lamb nos. 640 and 2491.

Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109).
Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

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01/01/1900
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Library of Congress
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