Photographs

Reception of a Soldier into Paradise

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Type: Photographs(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1920
Accession number: 2000.5.2097
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. (29.2 x 12.4 cm.) mount: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (36.8 x 28.6 cm.)
Medium: photograph
Description: Two lights, left showing angel in sky holding palm, soldiers below stepping up out of thorns. Right light shows two angels in sky holding harp, Christ standing below. Landscape background. Lower right shows banner with: "THEY CLIMBED THE STEEP ASCENT / OF HEAVEN / THROUGH PERIL TOIL AND PAIN / OH GOD TO US MAY GRACE / BE GIVEN / TO FOLLOW IN THEIR TRAIN"
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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