Faith; Unbelief

Maker Unknown

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1871

Mediumwatercolor, ink and graphite on paper

Dimensions10 1/8 x 7 in. (25.7 x 17.8 cm.)

DescriptionFour lights and tracery. Third light only is completed, the others only lightly outlined in graphite. Third light shows Faith in white over blue, holding lamp, with hydra at her feet, and serpent around left wrist. Below, figure of Unbelief seated in briar. Foliage behind Faith, quarry ground above, with scroll reading "Fides". Four tracery lights above, two below with scrolls and two above with minstrel angels, one with t-dulcimer and other with violin.

Inscribedrecto lower left in brown ink: "Wakefield Church / Aisle window - 2nd design / June 6th 1871"; recto lower right in brown ink: "The property of / Morris & Company / 26 Queen Square Bloomsbury"

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.1232