Drawings

Saint Pedroc; Saint Carranog

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1948
Accession number: 2000.5.1085
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Duncan Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1893–1954)
Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (21.9 x 12.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on tracing paper
Description: Two lights and tracery. Left light shows St. Pedroc in green cope over white robe, wearing mitre, carrying staff and bowl; grey dog at his left. Right light shows St. Carranog in purple cope over white robe, wearing mitre, carrying spade and scroll, with bird perched on left arm. Plain quarry grounds. Multi-colored borders. Scroll across bottom of lights reads "GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE" (in graphite). Trefoil above multi-colored border, three yellow stylized flowers and scroll across center reading "ADDOLIAD TOSTURI". Name-scrolls above figures read "ST. PEdROG" and "ST. CARANNOG".
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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