Drawings

Adoration of the Magi

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1890
Accession number: 2000.5.462
Makers: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (32.4 x 20 cm.)
Medium: watercolor, ink and graphite on paper
Description: Three lights with six smaller tracery lights above. Left light shows Joseph with an angel with a dulcimer above. The central light shows Mary and Christ in a manger with an angel holding a star above. The right light shows the three magi with an angel with a dulcimer above. The smaller lights above have figures of angels.
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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