Drawings

Saint Cecilia; Saint Catherine

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1909
Accession number: 2000.5.1386
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: 7 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. (19.7 x 7.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: two lights and tracery. Left light shows St Cecili in white over red, holding organ. Right light shows St Catherine in white over blue, crowned, holding pen and book. Both figures standing on foregrounds of lilies of the valley, against backgrounds of lilies and white rose-hedge; panels of briar rose below and long scroll. Tracery contains seraph heads and blue wings. Name scrolls above figures.
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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