Drawings

Temperance; Faith

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1927
Accession number: 2000.5.977
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (15.9 x 9.5 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and one quatrefoil of stylized flowers. Temperance is pouring water from a jug onto blue flames on ground in the left panel. She is wearing a red gown and has a blue halo. Faith is holding a lamp in right hand and has snake at her feet in the right panel. She is wearing blue and has red halo. Both figures are presented in front of quarries of grapes and vines with grass below.
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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