Drawings

Second Day of Creation; Fourth Day of Creation

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1895
Accession number: 2000.5.1281
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 9 x 2 1/2 in. (22.9 x 6.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and tracery. Left light shows angels in white with red wings, holding globes - standing on blue clouds - globes perhaps representing night and day. Right light shows angels in white with red wings, standing on blue clouds, holding globes representing trees and planets. Quarry grounds and scrolls above and below. Tracery above shows foliage and pink flowers.
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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