Tree of Jesse

Maker Philip Webb (British, 1831 - 1915)

Designerdesigned by William Morris (British, 1834 - 1896)

Designerdesigned by Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833 - 1898)

Designerdesigned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828 - 1882)

Designerdesigned by Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821 - 1893)

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1864

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (31.4 x 21 cm.)

DescriptionThree lancets and two quatrefoils above. The Tree of Jesse subject fills the greater part of the main lights. In the heads of the left and right lights are the Annunciation, and the Virgin and Child appears in the head of the center light. The Tree of Jesse is arranged as follows, reading upwards: the left light shows Abraham, Isaac, Salomon, Boaz and Ruth; the center light shows Jesse, David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Hezekiah, Josiah, Jechoniah, Salathiel, Eleazar and Joseph; the right light shows Sarah, Jacob, Judah, Aminadab and Obed. The quatrefoils show at left, and angel with a lunette dulcimer, and at right, angel with double-pipe (both half-length). Set against a background of round glass, with flaming stars in yellow; the trunk and branches of the tree are pale purple, the sparse formalized leavs pale green; the figure are mostly robed in blue, deep red, green, gold, brown and white; border of flowers. (Description taken from Sewter, pp. 86-87)

Inscribedrecto upper right: "G / SD 7"; recto upper left: "1/2" scale"; recto lower right in black ink: "Design for west window / St. Stephen's Church, Guernsey / By Messrs Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. / 8 Red Lion Sqr, Holborn, LONDON"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.45