Drawings

Adoration of the Magi

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1918
Accession number: 2000.5.1455
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Designer: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass: three lights and small blue tracery. Left light shows angel and two shepherds. Central ligh shows Virgin and child under open thatched shelter - angel above holding star. Right light shows angel with lyre and another with dulcimer. Landscape background, starry sky above. In panels below blue ground with green foliage and scroll reading "QUIA NATUS EST VOBIS SALVATOR"
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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