Drawings

Piety and Feeding the Hungry; Compassion and Teaching the Ignorant

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1930
Accession number: 2000.5.1000
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 5 in. (21.9 x 12.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lancets. The left lancet shows Piety above in white pattern over red, holding apples on a plate, and below, Feeding the hungy: a woman in red with foold held in her skirts, giving it to people sitting on the ground before her. Right lancet shows Compassion in white over green, holding up red handkerchief and below, female figure in blue surrounded by children, Teaching the ignorant. Vine backgrounds, name scrolls above and below figures and behind them, blue scrolled drapery and tiled floor.
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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