Drawings

Virgin and Child; Christ on the Cross; Ascension

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1915
Accession number: 2000.5.800
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British, 20th Century(Opens in new tab) (British)
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); designed by William Morris(Opens in new tab) (British, 1834–1896)
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (23.5 x 16.8 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass. Three lancets and tracery. Left lancet shows Virgin and child seated on straw under thatched hut - angel with star above; central lancet shows Christ on cross as living tree, serpent at its base, or angel on either side; right lancet shows Ascension - Christ in sky surrounded by seraph heads with red wings - below two angels with blue wings. Tracery- three quatrefoils at top left to right show seraph heads with blue wings; central shows dove descending. Six panels of minstrel and praying angels.
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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