Drawings

Saint Stephen; Saint Alban; Saint Edmund

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1924
Accession number: 2000.5.952
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: 10 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (27 x 16.2 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights and 5-foils above. Left panel shows St. Stephen in green over red earring a palm frond in right hand and censer in left. Central panel shows St. Alban in armor with a white and gold mantle holding a sword in right hand and cross-staff in left. The right panel shows St. Edmund in regal attire holding arrows in left hand and staff in right. ALl three are presented standing on grass with a blue curtain behind and stylized vines above and below. Their names appear in the vines below. Trefoil above shows a burning lamp. 5-foils show a soul led by a guardian angel and the sacrifice of Abraham. Verso shows sketches of scrolls.
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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