Drawings

Mary Virgin; Christ as Love; Saint John

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1906
Accession number: 2000.5.1447
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: 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (22.2 x 14.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: three lights and three trefoils in tracery above. Left light shows Mary Virgin in white over blue. Central light shows Christ as Love in red, holding cross. Right light shows St John in white over brown Landscape grounds multicolored rose and crown borders. Name scrolls below Mary and John. Drawn across bases of three lights is the reredos - not filled in. Two trefoils at elft and right show crown and sceptre and chalice, respectively - rose and crown borders. Trefoil at upper center shows two angels in white gazing down, with red wings. Black ink traces arch over windows.
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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