Photographs

Good Shepherd

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Type: Photographs(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1954
Accession number: 2000.5.2858
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Designer: designed by Duncan Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1893–1954)
Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.6 x 14 cm.)
Medium: photograph
Description: Three lights. Left light: figure of St. Matthew, standing, holding open book with scroll above head inscribed "S. MATTHEW", below Matthew, St. Luke, standing, holding book in left hand and quill in right, scroll above head inscribed: "S. LUKE". Center light: large figure of Christ, standing, holding shepherd's crook in left hand, lamb in right, ten sheep graze at his feet. Landscape background with stream at front and city in distance. Right light: figure of St. Mark, standing, reading from open book with scroll above head inscribed "S. MARK", below Mark, St. John, standing, holding scroll in both hands, scroll above head inscribed: "S. JOHN".
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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