Drawings

Christ the Sower; Ruth

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1914
Accession number: 2000.5.788
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)
Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (14.3 x 6.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass. Two lancets with quatrefoil above showing doce descending. LEft lancet shows Christ the Sower in white over red; right lancet shows Ruth holding wheatsheaf in white over red - landscape backgrounds unite both subjects, title-scrolls below.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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