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Ascension

Ascension

Maker (British, 1860 - 1932)
Maker (British, 1861 - 1940)
Additional Title(s)
  • Design for Stained Glass
Collections
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Dateca. 1916/1921
Mediumgraphite on paper
Dimensions115 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (292.7 x 76.5 cm.)
DescriptionRight light. 4 angels, full length, staggered from base of light to top - one has been fully sketched in at right. Foreground angel has only wings completed. The remaining 2 angels have not had facial details added. Various wings appearing out of border on left hand side of light.
Inscribedrecto upper left in brown ink: "MORNINGSIDE, Right Hand, No. 2, Window" verso lower leftin graphite: "Morningside No 2 Window / Top No 3" on brown outer wrapping: label inscribed in brown ink: "Morningside Roll 192 / (Edinburgh) / Three Light & Tracery / "Ascension" from (Siddal Mr. Dearle's)"; below, printed in black ink: "From MORRIS & COMPANY, / DECORATORS LTD. / Merton Abbey, SURREY."
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
Not on view
Object number2000.5.1739
Illustration 3 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Old Dragon.
Illustration 3 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Old Dragon.
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.16
Illustration 6 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Raphael Warns Adam and Eve
Illustration 6 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Raphael Warns Adam and Eve
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.7
Illustration 1 to Milton's "Comus": Comus and His Revellers
Illustration 1 to Milton's "Comus": Comus and His Revellers
William Blake
ca. 1801
Object number: 000.20
Ascension (Praying Angels)
Ascension (Praying Angels)
Unknown, British
ca. 1903
Object number: 2000.5.2717d
Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version]
Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version]
William Blake
1808
Object number: 000.3
Illustration 2 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell
Illustration 2 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.2
Untitled
Untitled
Unknown
ca. 1903
Object number: 2000.5.1214
The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi
The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi
William Blake
ca. 1826-1827
Object number: 000.43
Illustration 5 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Flight of Moloch
Illustration 5 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Flight of Moloch
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.18
Moses Placed in the Ark of the Bulrushes
Moses Placed in the Ark of the Bulrushes
William Blake
ca. 1824
Object number: 000.28
Ascension / Faith / Charity / Hope [?]
Ascension / Faith / Charity / Hope [?]
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1903-1904
Object number: 2000.5.1758
Illustration 1 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Calling Up His Legions
Illustration 1 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Calling Up His Legions
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.1