Drawings
Virgin and Child; Christ on the Cross; Ascension
- Date
- ca. 1915
- Accession number
- 2000.5.800
- Makers
- Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
- Unknown, British, 20th Century(Opens in new tab) (British)
- Designers
- designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
- designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
- designed by William Morris(Opens in new tab) (British, 1834–1896)
- Dimensions
- 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (23.5 x 16.8 cm.)
- Medium
- watercolor and ink on paper
- Description
- Design for stained glass. Three lancets and tracery. Left lancet shows Virgin and child seated on straw under thatched hut - angel with star above; central lancet shows Christ on cross as living tree, serpent at its base, or angel on either side; right lancet shows Ascension - Christ in sky surrounded by seraph heads with red wings - below two angels with blue wings. Tracery- three quatrefoils at top left to right show seraph heads with blue wings; central shows dove descending. Six panels of minstrel and praying angels.
- Credit
- The Huntington
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
