Drawings

The Transfiguration

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1918
Accession number: 2000.5.1453
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: 13 1/2 x 10 in. (34.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: three lights and tracery - outline in black, in robes, holding tablets - below, sleeping apostle. Central light shows Christ above in robes, hands extended; below, sleeping spostle. Right light shows Elias (beardless), in robes with sleeping apostle below. Scrolla cross bases with scrolled foliage surrounding it. Verso top of page shows two sketches of arms holding swords; at lower right, sketch of hand grasping short rod.
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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