Drawings

Christ Receiving the Soldier into Paradise

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1926
Accession number: 2000.5.974
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (18.7 x 11.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Single light. Christ is helping an armor-clad figure out of a fissure in the ground. Christ is wearing white with a red mantle, the soldier in a blue tunic with a white and gold mantle. They are in a landscaped setting. There is a name scroll above.
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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