Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Drawings
Charity; Fortitude
Image not available
- Date
- ca. 1897
- Accession number
- 2000.5.1290
- Maker
- Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
- Designer
- designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
- Dimensions
- 9 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (25.1 x 24.1 cm.)
- Medium
- watercolor and ink on paper
- Description
- Two lancets. Left lancet shows Charity in crimson, flames issuing from her head. In panel below, David lamenting - in crimson, on floor, before throne, head in hands, two figures standing nearby. Right lancet shwos Fortitude in pink over white, holding sword and red shield. Below, scene of David consoled - David on throne holding sword, figures standing to either side. Blue drapery backgrounds - plain quarries above and below in left lancet with multi-colored border. Scrolls above figures inscibed "CARITAS" and "FORTITUDO".
