Drawings

Angels Blowing Long Trumpets, Christ Receiving the Soldier in Paradise

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1926
Accession number: 2000.5.968
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (31.8 x 25.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights and tracery. Left and right lights show angels blowing trumpets. They are wearing red gowns with white mantles and blue wings in clouds above are angels playing dulcimers. Central panel shows Christ in red and white helping a soldier, in white and gold out of a fissure in the ground. An angel plays a dulcimer above. All are in a landscape setting. Angels with a palm frond, crown and banner are in tracery above. Upper angels of lights are a replacement.
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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