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A LEADED GLASS WINDOW
DESIGNED BY LOUIS SULLIVAN FOR THE HENRY BABSON HOUSE, RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1907
The rounded caming dividing the clear glass ground into rectangular sections, the perimeter banded in narrow rectangles of textured glass, the bottom with a frieze of opalescent rectangular devices, either side with small butterscotch glass squares, in the original painted sash-5lin. (l29.5cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide
cf.H.Allen Brooks, The Prairie School, W.W.Norton & Co., New York, l972, p. l40, fig. 78 for an illustration of the exterior of the house showing the windows with their white casements H. Allen Brooks, ed.,Prairie School for Architecture(from "The Western Architect"), Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, l975, p. ll7 for an interior view showing a variant of the standard window design. This variant may be part of the second phase of this commission undertaken by Purcell & Elmslie in l9l5.
DESIGNED BY LOUIS SULLIVAN FOR THE HENRY BABSON HOUSE, RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1907
The rounded caming dividing the clear glass ground into rectangular sections, the perimeter banded in narrow rectangles of textured glass, the bottom with a frieze of opalescent rectangular devices, either side with small butterscotch glass squares, in the original painted sash-5lin. (l29.5cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide
cf.H.Allen Brooks, The Prairie School, W.W.Norton & Co., New York, l972, p. l40, fig. 78 for an illustration of the exterior of the house showing the windows with their white casements H. Allen Brooks, ed.,Prairie School for Architecture(from "The Western Architect"), Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, l975, p. ll7 for an interior view showing a variant of the standard window design. This variant may be part of the second phase of this commission undertaken by Purcell & Elmslie in l9l5.