Drawings

Christ as Love with Groups of Warriors and Men, Women and Children

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1918
Accession number: 2000.5.736
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: 12 3/8 x 15 in. (31.4 x 38.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Five lancets with tracery, teo left lancets show soldier - in armor, with shields and spears; middle lancet is Christ as love in red, holding living tree cross, gesturing at Chalice, two angels above; four lancet shows warriors in prayer; fifth lancet shows men and women and children. Background shows city and landscape - stream in foreground. Tracery above show coats of arms, minstral angels and vines.
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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