Drawings

Angel with Palm and Lyre; Angel with Palm and Violin; Miriam; Ruth

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1909
Accession number: 2000.5.1391
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 blue over green with red wings, holding palm and lyre. Right light shows angel in red with blue wings holding palm and violin - quarry grounds. Bottom left light shows Miriam in red, holding lyre, tree behind. Right light shows Ruth in blue, holding sheaves, wheat behind her. Quarry grounds. Scrolls behind heads.
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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