Drawings

Saint Matthew; Saint Mark; Christ on the Cross; Saint Luke; Saint John

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1868
Accession number: 2000.5.1217
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
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)
Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (31.1 x 24.8 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Five lights and tracery - four quatrefoils of pattern-work interspersed between tops of lights, and above each of them two smaller tracery lights. First light (from left to right) shows St. Matthew wearing sandles, beardless and holding angel on arm, in blue over white; second light shows St. Mark in red over green, holding winged lion, facing right, with scroll around mane; third light shows Christ on cross/tree; fourth light shows St. Luke in blue over brown, holding winged bull, facing left, scroll under ching; fifth light shows St. John in white and red cloak over green, holding chalice. Quarry grounds, names on banners below them, narrow multi-colored leaf borders.
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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