Drawings

Fortitude; Devotion; Saint Francis; Saint Christopher

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937
Accession number: 2000.5.677
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designers: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (23.5 x 12.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper matted on gray card
Description: Four lancets arranged in two tiers and tracery; top left is Fortitude - knight in armor holding spear and shield studded with arrows; top right- Centurion with hands clasped on Devotion; below left - St. Francis in brown robe with birds; below right - St. Christopher holding tree branch, walking in stream, child on shoulder- backgrounds of scrolled foliage - tracery shown lamp
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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