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Sol

Maker
Designer (British, 1833 - 1898)
Maker (British, 1861 - 1940)
Additional Title(s)
  • Photograph of a Design for Stained Glass
Collections
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS
Dateca. 1879
Mediumphotograph
Dimensions3 1/4 x 2 in. (8.3 x 5.1 cm.)
DescriptionFemale figure, crowned with laurel, and flaming halo, seated on bank of clouds, playing elaborate lyre. Lion, facing left, sits at her right. Landscape visible below. Scroll at upper left inscribed: "SOLIS / AUREU / SIDUS".
Inscribedverso upper left in graphite: "FP 46." verso upper center in graphite: "S P 334." verso lower center in graphite: "H 353" [underlined]
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
Not on view
Object number2000.5.2799
Sun
Sun
Unknown, British
ca. 1879
Object number: 2000.5.1904c
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
Image Not Available for Piramide del Sol, Mexico
Piramide del Sol, Mexico
Edward Henry Weston
1923
Object number: 87.51.2
Illustration 1 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Descent of Peace
Illustration 1 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Descent of Peace
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.14
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.6
Illustration 6 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Night of Peace
Illustration 6 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Night of Peace
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.19
Illustration 7 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": The Rout of the Rebel Angels
Illustration 7 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": The Rout of the Rebel Angels
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.8
Jupiter
Jupiter
Unknown, British
ca. 1879
Object number: 2000.5.2798
Illustrated manuscript of Genesis : second title page
Illustrated manuscript of Genesis : second title page
William Blake
ca. 1826-1827
Object number: 000.33
Illustration 4 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Overthrow of Apollo and the Pagan Gods
Illustration 4 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Overthrow of Apollo and the Pagan Gods
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.17
Mars
Mars
Unknown, British
ca. 1879
Object number: 2000.5.2797
Illustrated manuscript of Genesis : first title page
Illustrated manuscript of Genesis : first title page
William Blake
ca. 1826-1827
Object number: 000.32