Drawings

Pomona; Odin; Chaucer

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1928
Accession number: 2000.5.992
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 in. (25.1 x 17.8 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Six lights and tracery. The two upper lights at left and right shows blue shields, while the central panel shows a roundel of Apollo playing a lyre with a lion behind. Lower lights show Pomona holding an apple tree branch in her left hand and holding some in her gown with her right hand. She is on a field of quarries and has a name scroll. The central panel shows Odin with birds on his left shoulder and wolves at his feet. He is holding a staff and sitting in his throne with a city behind and the world below. The right light is not completed. The upper roundel is an image of Chaucer, the lower an unidentified woman.
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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