Drawings

Angels; Mary Virgin; Christ on the Cross; Saint John

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1895
Accession number: 2000.5.1279
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.2 x 25.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Five lights and tracery. Left light shows angel in pink over bluewith red wings holding scroll. Second light shows Mary Virgin in white over blue and red. Central light is taller and shows Christ on Cross as living tree, serpent at base, sun and moon above. Fourth light shows St. John in white over red. Fifth light shows angel in pink with red wings holding scroll. Below figures, in 1, 2, 4, and 5, 4-foils showing emblems of Evangelists (angel, lion, ox and eagle respectively). Beneath the central light, a scroll reading "HIC EST / [?] [?]" in graphite. Landscape backgrounds to central lights, blue behind emblems. Tracery lights show three 4-foils at top, two larger 5-foils at left and right of angels playing dulcimers. Smaller lights show seraph heads. Verso shows pencil sketches of different windows with decorative vine borders and sketch of vine.
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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