Drawings

Homer; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Three Arts; Medea and Phyllis; Caxton; Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey; Shylock and Portia; Dante; Milton; Tennyson

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1927
Accession number: 2000.5.51
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designers: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 19 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (49.2 x 41 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: One large round-headed light between two smaller rectangular lights; with subjects in four tiers in the central light, and three tiers in the side lights. Left light shows (from top to bottom): Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare. Central light shows: Three Arts - three seated female figures, of Painting, Literature and Music; Medea and Phyllis, from Chaucer's 'Good Women'; Caxton, Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey (from Henry VIII), and Shylock and Portia (from The Merchant of Venice). The right light shows: Dante, Milton, Tennyson. Scroll labels behind heads of the poets; borders all around, with coats of arms at top center and lower right corner of central light; the subjects separated by columns in second, third and bottom tier of central light. (Description taken from Sewter, p. 154)
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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