Homer; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Three Arts; Medea and Phyllis; Caxton; Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey; Shylock and Portia; Dante; Milton; Tennyson

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

Designerdesigned by John Henry Dearle (British, 1860 - 1932)

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1927

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions19 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (49.2 x 41 cm.)

DescriptionOne large round-headed light between two smaller rectangular lights; with subjects in four tiers in the central light, and three tiers in the side lights. Left light shows (from top to bottom): Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare. Central light shows: Three Arts - three seated female figures, of Painting, Literature and Music; Medea and Phyllis, from Chaucer's 'Good Women'; Caxton, Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey (from Henry VIII), and Shylock and Portia (from The Merchant of Venice). The right light shows: Dante, Milton, Tennyson. Scroll labels behind heads of the poets; borders all around, with coats of arms at top center and lower right corner of central light; the subjects separated by columns in second, third and bottom tier of central light. (Description taken from Sewter, p. 154)

Inscribedrecto upper left: "Plymouth Free Library"; recto lower right: "Scale 1" = 1 foot"; recto lower right in graphite by Sanford Berger: "417-1927"; verso center in graphite by Sanford Berger: "Plymouth Free Library / Pg. 417 Aug. 10, 1927 / Mr. Dearle, Mr. Titcomb, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Seeley"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.51