Opening Hours
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Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Drawings
Christ Receiving a Soldier into Paradise
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- Date
- ca. 1923
- Accession number
- 2000.5.943
- 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
- 8 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. (22.5 x 10.8 cm.)
- Medium
- watercolor and ink on paper
- Description
- Two lights and tracery above (two trefoils of blue, one quatrefoil in top center of angel holding scroll). Left light shows soldier in armor, kneeling, caught in brambles. Landscape and two angels behind, holding palm and crown. Right light shows Christ in red over white holding hand of soldier, landscape and two angels behind holding harp. Scroll below Christ which reads 'THEY CLIMBED THE STEEP / ASCENT [illegible]'.
