Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Drawings
Homer; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Three Arts; Medea and Phyllis; Caxton; Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey; Shylock and Portia; Dante; Milton; Tennyson
- Date
- ca. 1927
- Accession number
- 2000.5.51
- Maker
- Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
- Designers
- designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
- designed by 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)
