Design drawing for stained glass window with text: One Was a Queen and Elizabeth I
Summary
Design shows Queen Elizabeth I of England in memorial window with full-skirted, ruffed and crowned, heart-topped scepter, cross-topped orb, "Shakespeare" shield, ship, Gothic style square building with clock tower, and possibly the Houses of Parliament.
Annotations on drawing: CW 5, G 5144.
Illegible artist's notes. Sticker: Stained Glass Association of America, Small Early Blue. See Lamb #27, "One was a Priest," #223, "One was a Soldier," #457, "One was a Shepherdess on the Green," for images like this window. Allusions to Hymn 243 from the Episcopal Hymnal, 1940: "I sing a song of the saints of God, Patient and brave and true. Who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew..." Hymn by Lesbia Scott, 1929 and J.M. Hopkins, 1940(?).
Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109).
Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
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