Drawings

Christ in Glory in Paradise

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1902
Accession number: 2000.5.465
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 24 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (63.2 x 45.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor, ink and graphite on paper
Description: Description is according to note pinned to image. It reads: "In the central panel is Christ as "Salvator Mundi" surrounded by the heavenly host. Below are the three archangels, Gabriel, Michael and Raphael and below these a choir of angels. Springing from the feet of Christ is the River of life coursing through flowering gardens of paradise and along its banks are every kind of people in reunion, mothers finding their Babes again, husbands their wives, brothers their sisters, kings and priests. Soldiers all come together again in peace and paradise." There are seven larger lights and forty-one smaller elements of tracery. Angels and a dove of peace are depicted in the tracery.
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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