Design drawing for mural with Sage Chapel, Young Manhood, Education, The Sciences (Astronomy, center), Philosophy, The Arts (Literature, Architecture, Music), and Young Womanhood for Sage Chapel, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
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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 Stymitz Lamb abd 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. 127 and 2491.
Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109).
Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.
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