Drawings

Faith; Unbelief

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1871
Accession number: 2000.5.1232
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 7 in. (25.7 x 17.8 cm.)
Medium: watercolor, ink and graphite on paper
Description: Four lights and tracery. Third light only is completed, the others only lightly outlined in graphite. Third light shows Faith in white over blue, holding lamp, with hydra at her feet, and serpent around left wrist. Below, figure of Unbelief seated in briar. Foliage behind Faith, quarry ground above, with scroll reading "Fides". Four tracery lights above, two below with scrolls and two above with minstrel angels, one with t-dulcimer and other with violin.
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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