Drawings

Transfiguration; Ascension

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1919
Accession number: 2000.5.836
Makers: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (26.7 x 19.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Design for stained glass. Two cusped lights with quatrefoil above and tracery. Left light shows Christ between Moses and Elias in sky, above, three sleeping apostles below. Foliage above and below with colored borders- scroll below. Right light shows Ascension of CHrist - an angel on either side of him, earth below. Above, quatrefoil of three minstrel angels - scrolled tracery.
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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