| Status: |
Extant [PHOTO] |
| Confidence: |
High |
| Memorial name: |
Hart Memorial Window |
| Theme: |
The House of Aldus [TIFF1897, TIFF1910, DUNC1980] |
| Tiffany 1910: |
Page 36 |
| Duncan 1980: |
Page 207 |
| Tiffany 1897: |
Page 24 |
| Signature: |
TIFFANY GLASS & DECORATING COMPANY / NEW YORK 1895 [PHOTO] |
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| Other documentation: |
[NYT1895, NYTR1895, NYP1895, LJ1895, ARCH1895, NYH1896, AEJ1896, CONG1896, TDT1897, THOM1901] |
| Designer: |
Frederick Wilson [NYT1895, NYTR1895, NYP1895, LJ1895, ARCH1895, NYH1896, AEJ1896, ARCH1896, CONG1896, THOM1901] |
| Memorial details: |
William Howard Hart (7 Apr 1822 - 3 Apr 1883) [NYT1895, LJ1895, TDT1897, WEB] |
| Donor: |
his wife, Mary Elizabeth Lane Hart [NYT1895, LJ1895, TDT1897, TIFF1897, WEB] |
| Date: |
Design copyright 1895 [CONG1896] |
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Signature 1895 [SIGNATURE] |
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Exhibited Dec 1895 / Jan 1896 [NYT1895, NYTR1895, NYH1896] |
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In place when building opened on 12 May 1897 [TDT1897] |
| Lancets: |
1 [PHOTO] |
| Inscription: |
Man is not born for pleasure, / which is unworthy of a truly / generous mind, but for labor. Aldus // Study as if your were to live / forever, live as if you were to / die to-morrow. Isidore of Seville // This building is erected by / Mary E Hart, / for the promotion of learning and the arts // In loving memory of her husband, / William Howard Hart. [PHOTO, TDT1897] |
| Category: |
Historic |
| Cost: |
$1500 [WEB] |
| Tiffany/Duncan comment: |
Tiffany 1897 (p. 91) quotes an extract from an article in the New York World which mentions that the window was being exhibited [TIFF1897] |
| AEJ1896: |
The Albany Evening Journal (4 Jan 1896, p. 7) |
| ARCH1895: |
Catalogue of the Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York (1895, p. 57a) |
| ARCH1896: |
Catalogue of the Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York (1896, p. 30) |
| CONG1896: |
The Congregationalist (3 Dec 1896, cover and p. 873) |
| DUNC1980: |
Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980) |
| LJ1895: |
The Library Journal (Sep 1895, p. 325) |
| NYH1896: |
New York Herald (4 Jan 1896, p. 12) |
| NYP1895: |
New York Press (14 Dec 1895, p. 10) |
| NYT1895: |
New York Times (12 Dec 1895, p. 2) |
| NYTR1895: |
New York Daily Tribune (12 Dec 1895, p. 2) |
| ORG: |
Organization |
| PHOTO: |
Photo of item |
| SIGNATURE: |
Signature on item |
| TDT1897: |
Troy Daily Times (13 May 1897, p. 3) |
| THOM1901: |
Munsey's Magazine, Window Making as an Art, William H. Thomas (Dec 1901, Vol. 26, No. 3, p. 386-395) |
| TIFF1886: |
Announcement in American Architect and Building News, Tiffany Glass Company (6 Feb 1886) |
| TIFF1893: |
Chicago Exposition booklet, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1893) |
| TIFF1897: |
A List of Windows: And Extracts from Letters & Newspapers, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1897) |
| TIFF1910: |
A Partial List of Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Studios (1910) |
| WEB: |
Some general webpage, e.g. for deducing biographical or genealogical information |
| WJ1899: |
Walter Janes booklet (ca. 1899) |
