Drawings

Charity

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1893
Accession number: 2000.5.1272
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (23.2 x 18.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Single light and tracery. Charity in red, right hand on breast, flames issuing from head. Background of quarries, grassy foreground. Scroll label above inscribed "CARITAS". Trefoil above showing flower with three radiating leaves.
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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