Drawings

Angels with Trumpets; Nathaniel; Saint John

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1909
Accession number: 2000.5.1390
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 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (16.8 x 11.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: four lights, each of two lights arranged above the other; small tracery of foliage on blue ground above. Top; left light shows angel in red with blue wings, blowing long trumpet. Right light shows angel in blue with green wings blowing long trumpet - quarry grounds (left light shows pencilled square around head and shoulders of angel). Bottom left light shows Nathaniel in blue over gold, reading book. Right light shows St John in crimson over light red, holding cup with serpent and open book. Landscape backgrounds with quarries above.
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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