Drawings

Saint Jacob; Saint Peter; Saint John

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1867
Accession number: 2000.5.1221
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown(Opens in new tab) (Unknown)
Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (14.6 x 8.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights and tracery - three trefoils with multi-colored leaf and flower designs above main lights and above these, two rounded trefoils with geometric pattern-work in yellow, blue and red, and at top center, trefoil with yellow star-like flower surrounded by blue leaves. Left light shows St. Jacob (St. James?) holding palm and staff, wearing pilgrim's hat and patterned white robe, holding keys and book. Right light shows St. John in yellow and white over green, holding chalice. The upper portion of the light is blue in left and right lights, red in the central light; the lower portion is a red pattern in the left and right lights and blue in the central light. Left and right lights also show green tiled floors while the central light shows red tiles. Name panels below figures.
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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