Saint Luke; Charity

Maker Unknown

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass
St. Luke; Charity

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1946

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions14 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (36.8 x 19.7 cm.)

DescriptionTwo lights and circle tracery. Left light shows St. Luke in green over brown holding staff with snake twined around it and book. Scene below showing visiting / healing the sick, two figures standing by another's bedside. Right light shows Charity in red over white, holding child, two by her side, flame coming from palm of hand. Long hair. Scene below showing figure in green making offering to paralytic seated on floor, crutches by side. Blue drapery backgrounds in main lights, green scrolled foliage above. Circle tracery shows emblem - a bull with wings, surrounded by stylized foliage in yellow and blue. Verso shows beginnings of pencil sketch of single light.

Inscribedrecto upper left in black ink, typed: "FOLKESTONE"; recto lower left in black ink, typed: "Duncan W. Dearle, F.R.S.A.., / "Kelmscott", / Elton Road, Purley. Surrey."; recto lower right in black ink, typed: "3/4" to One Foot"; recto lower right in black ink: "29:10:46"; verso lower right in graphite, upside down: "S. Co[?] / S. Pau[?]"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.1095