Drawings

Angels; Tree with Dove; Saint George; Ruth; Virgin and Child; Phoebe; Saint Luke

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927
Accession number: 2000.5.664
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designers: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (26 x 30.2 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Series of quatrefoils at top with foliage and alternating blue and red diamond centers; upper tier of lancets shows angels with horns at left and right, angels with staffs and tree with dove descending at center; lower tier shows St. George standing on dragon, Ruth with wheatsheef, Virgin and Child, Phoebe with book, St. Luke - lower tier has alternating red and blue drapery backgrounds, with grisaille foliage above.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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