Tiffany Studios Sketch For A Rose Window. From the Garden Collection. Unidentified designer in the Tiffany Studios Window Department, watercolor on paper. The designer had to oversee every stage of a window's production to ensure its faithful translation from sketch to finished work. After the initial colour sketch was approved first by Tiffany and then buy the customer, a full-scale cartoon was produced from which the glazier later assembled the window, and the other divided up with a special cutting knife to form the templates with which the glazier cut the individual panels of glass. Along the way, the designer had to over see the selection of the glass, made by a coloururist, to ensure that it matched his intended palette; if the correct hue or texture could not be found in the racks, a special batch of glass needed to be prepared. In all this, Tiffany's indefatigable enthusiasm, embodied in his daily exhortation that 'infinite endless labor makes the masterpiece', proved infectious to his staff. Length 3 inches, Width 4 1/2 inches (7.5x11.5 cm.) Provenance: Liquidation Sale, Tiffany Studios, 1930's. Vito D'Agustino. The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan.This drawing is pictured on page 148 of Louis C. Tiffany The Garden Museum Collection, Alastair Duncan 2004.

- A very nice clean window sketch mounted in a museum frame and mat overlay framed by The Garden Museum - The frame has not been disassembled to examine the underlying mat around the sketch