Drawings

Three Marys at the Cross; Four Angels in White Weeping; Christ on the Cross; Saint John, Joseph and Nicodemus at the Cross

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1918
Accession number: 2000.5.823
Makers: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Dimensions: 9 x 4 in. (22.9 x 10.2 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass. Three lancets and tracery. Four-foil at top showing angel with dulcimer. Six smaller lancets - four on left and right show angels with scrolls. Two at center show angels with pipe and curved horn. Left leancet shows four angels in white with red wings weeping (above)- below three Marys. Central lancet shows Christ on cross surrounded by angels with red wings, below are St John, Joseph and Nicodemus. Quarry grounds.
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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