Drawings

Nativity with Magi and Angels

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1898
Accession number: 2000.5.719
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39.1 x 28.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Four lancets, tracery, and three quatrefoils - scene runs across all four lancets, show Virgin blue lying down in manger holding Christ child - row of angels in background and foreground praying (in white with pink wings). Magi in left lancet, shepherds on right - the four-foils above show angels with star, crown and cup respectively.
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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