Pomona; Odin; Chaucer

Maker Unknown

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1928

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions9 7/8 x 7 in. (25.1 x 17.8 cm.)

DescriptionSix lights and tracery. The two upper lights at left and right shows blue shields, while the central panel shows a roundel of Apollo playing a lyre with a lion behind. Lower lights show Pomona holding an apple tree branch in her left hand and holding some in her gown with her right hand. She is on a field of quarries and has a name scroll. The central panel shows Odin with birds on his left shoulder and wolves at his feet. He is holding a staff and sitting in his throne with a city behind and the world below. The right light is not completed. The upper roundel is an image of Chaucer, the lower an unidentified woman.

Inscribedrecto lower right in graphite by Sanford Berger: "1928"; verso center in graphite: "Aberdeen / 34 Forest Rd. / 3/4"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.992