Drawings

Charity; Justice

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1923
Accession number: 2000.5.941
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (40.3 x 19.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and tracery. Left light depicts Charity with a child in left arm and protecting child with right. She is wearing a white and gold gown with a blue mantle lined in green. Her halo is red. The right light shows a figure of Justice with a sword in his right arm and scales in his left. He is wearing a white and gold tunic witha red mantle lined in blue. His halo is green and he is wearing a helmet. Both figures are presented in front of a black and white patterned curtain inside of a stylized vine arch with grass and flowers beneath and glass diamonds behind. Their names are beneath in coat of arms with stylized vines. The tracery depicts angels blowing horns, leading the blind, visitng the prisoners, two of the angels holding scrolls and flowers.
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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