Drawings

Christ Receiving a Soldier into Paradise

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1923
Accession number: 2000.5.943
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: 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]'.
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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