Drawings

Saint Nicholas; Saint Joseph; Saint Edmund

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1935
Accession number: 2000.5.1053
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designers: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932); William Henry Knight(Opens in new tab) (British, 1823–1863)
Dimensions: 8 x 7 7/8 in. (20.3 x 20 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lancets. Left lancet shows St. Nicholas in green cope with yellow patterned lining, holding crozier and baby, wearing mitre. Central lancet shows St. Joseph in brown over green, holding staff. Right lancet shows St. Edmund in king's robes, deep blue, over light blue patterned robe, wearing crown, holding golden arrow and rod. Left and right lancets with red drapery backgrounds, central with blue. Grisaille work above and below with shields and scroll under figures.
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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