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Tree of Jesse

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Type
Drawings(Opens in new tab)
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
Ford Madox Brown(Opens in new tab) (British, 1821–1893)
Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
William Morris(Opens in new tab) (British, 1834–1896)
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 Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department
European Art
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