Drawings

Christ Walking on the Water

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1915
Accession number: 2000.5.811
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 10 in. (34.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass. Three lancets with tracery above: two trefoils showing crown and lamp, green branches in two other tracery lancets, quatrefoil with shield. Scene of Christ walking on water is shown across three lancets, with Christ in right lancet - ship at left riding waves, figure in the sea reaching out to Christ - starry sky above.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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