Drawings

Adoration of the Magi

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1910
Accession number: 2000.5.1397
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 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (20 x 12.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: round-headed light. The kings stand to left in red, pale blue and white patterned with gold - wearing crownd. Virgin is seated to right holding naked Christ child - Virgin is in deep blue. Landscape background of hills and trees. Scrolled foliage panels above and below - scroll below. Multicolored leaf borders all around.
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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