Drawings

Adoration and Four Figures

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1898
Accession number: 2000.5.717
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (36.2 x 31.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Six lancets and tracery; St. James the Greater, St. Peter, Adoration of the Magi (two central lancets), Nativity, St. Paul, St. John - central pair have landscaped backgrunds; the other lancets with backgrounds of deep blue drapery, panels of scrolled foliage above and below, with scrolls in base panels inscribed with names in side lancets: Tracery: three minstrel angels in four-foils - other tracery with pattern-work in green.
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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