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Drawings

Clothing the Naked; Feeding the Hungry

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1911
Accession number: 2000.5.1413
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 9 x 3 3/4 in. (22.9 x 9.5 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: two lights and tracery above showing angel in clouds holding scroll. Left light shows "Clothing the Naked" - figure in red over white bending over, offering cloth to fallen woman seated at right. Right shows "Feeding the Hungry" - figure in white over red holding bread and offering it to seated mother and child at left. Landscape backgrounds - foliage panels above and below.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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