Drawings

Saint Luke; Charity

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1946
Accession number: 2000.5.1095
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (36.8 x 19.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and circle tracery. Left light shows St. Luke in green over brown holding staff with snake twined around it and book. Scene below showing visiting / healing the sick, two figures standing by another's bedside. Right light shows Charity in red over white, holding child, two by her side, flame coming from palm of hand. Long hair. Scene below showing figure in green making offering to paralytic seated on floor, crutches by side. Blue drapery backgrounds in main lights, green scrolled foliage above. Circle tracery shows emblem - a bull with wings, surrounded by stylized foliage in yellow and blue. Verso shows beginnings of pencil sketch of single light.
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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