Drawings

Mary Virgin; Simeon with the Christ Child

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1928
Accession number: 2000.5.985
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
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)
Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (20.6 x 13 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Two lights and tracery. Both figures are in front of red drapery panels in an architectural setting which is completed in the tracery above. Mary is in blue and green and has her hands clasped in the left panel. Simeon is holding the Christ child in the right panel. He is wearing gold and green with a blue halo. A scroll above reads "NUNC DIMITIS SERVUNTUUM".
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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