Drawings

Reception of Souls into Paradise

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1901
Accession number: 2000.5.1328
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Designer: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. (17.5 x 17.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass:circle surrounded by eight smaller circles, adn outer ring of alternate large and small four-foils. Central circle shows two "souls" in white, kneeling, being raised up by seraph heads with red halos and blue wings. Outer four-foils resemble large and small slowers - smaller have green centers and large have alternate green and blue centers with red rings around them.
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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