Drawings
Tree of Jesse
1 of 2
- Date
- ca. 1864
- Accession number
- 2000.5.45
- Makers
- Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
- Philip Webb(Opens in new tab) (British, 1831–1915)
- Designers
- designed by Ford Madox Brown(Opens in new tab) (British, 1821–1893)
- designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
- designed by William Morris(Opens in new tab) (British, 1834–1896)
- designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti(Opens in new tab) (British, 1828–1882)
- Dimensions
- 12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (31.4 x 21 cm.)
- Medium
- watercolor and ink on paper
- Description
- Three lancets and two quatrefoils above. The Tree of Jesse subject fills the greater part of the main lights. In the heads of the left and right lights are the Annunciation, and the Virgin and Child appears in the head of the center light. The Tree of Jesse is arranged as follows, reading upwards: the left light shows Abraham, Isaac, Salomon, Boaz and Ruth; the center light shows Jesse, David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Hezekiah, Josiah, Jechoniah, Salathiel, Eleazar and Joseph; the right light shows Sarah, Jacob, Judah, Aminadab and Obed. The quatrefoils show at left, and angel with a lunette dulcimer, and at right, angel with double-pipe (both half-length). Set against a background of round glass, with flaming stars in yellow; the trunk and branches of the tree are pale purple, the sparse formalized leavs pale green; the figure are mostly robed in blue, deep red, green, gold, brown and white; border of flowers. (Description taken from Sewter, pp. 86-87)
- Credit
- The Huntington
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
