Drawings

Jephthah's Daughter; Christ

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1926
Accession number: 2000.5.967
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designers: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. (18.4 x 7.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and tracery. Left light shows Jephthah's daughter in green and red with arms clasped on her torso. The right panel shows Christ in red and white looking towards Jephthah's daughter. Both are standing in front of a blue scroll-patterned curtain with a green border on bottom with stylized vines above and tiles below. Both panels have a lower quadrant of stylized vines with banners. Tracery above shows an angel holding a banner reading Alleluiah.
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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