Drawings

Hope; Charity; Faith

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1923
Accession number: 2000.5.940
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (27 x 16.2 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights and tracery. Left light depicts Hope in green gown holding a palm frond in right hand and reaching hand up to clouds above. The central panel depicts Charity holding a child in her left arm and protecting one with her right hand. She is wearing a red gown and a white mantle. The right light depicts Faith in a blue and brown gown holding a lamp in her right hand, with serpents on the ground. All three are presented in front of blue drapery with foliage behind and below. There is writing in the foliage below. Angels with scrolls in 5-foils above. Crown in trefoil above center.
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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