Fortitude, Design for a Stained Glass Window

A tall, narrow design for a stained glass window shows a robed female figure standing in a niche beneath a radiating sunburst, holding a column and a staff, flanked by foliage. A rosette tops the arched frame, and the word FORTITVDO appears on a band below.

Artist

Francis Augustus Lathrop

Date

ca. 1890

Medium

Brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on tracing paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1194 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum