Drawings

Hope; Love; Faith

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1920
Accession number: 2000.5.853
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898)
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 9 in. (31.8 x 22.9 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights with three trefoils, three quatrefoils, showing seraphs with yellow wings, with smaller quatrefoil at center showing dove descending. Left light shows Hope in armor, blue tunic, white cloak, hands in prayer. Central light shows Christ in white over red - blue drapery behind, green patterned ground above. Right light shows Faith in tunic over armor, holding shield full of arrows and broken sword. All standing on tiled floors, Gothic canopies above, name scrolls below. Faith and Hope have red drapery behind them, with blue patterned ground above.
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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