Drawings

Christ the Sower; Ruth the Reaper

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1910
Accession number: 2000.5.1405
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: 4 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (11.7 x 6.7 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: two lights. Lef tlight shows Christ the sower in red over white, with bag of seeds around his shoulder. Right light shows Ruth the reaper in patterned white over blue, holding ssheaves, others standing around her. Landscape backgrounds. Quarry panels above and below - scroll sketched in below Christ.
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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