Photographs

Choir of Angels with Scroll

Type: Photographs(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1872
Accession number: 2000.5.1546H
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8.3 x 7 cm.) mount: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.5 cm.)
Medium: silver nitrate
Description: Photograph of stained glass cartoon. Group of six angels, shown from waist up (bottom halves immersed in clouds), some praying, some holding long curved scrol - wings crossed behind them. All are wearing choir gowns.
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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