The Nativity

Maker Unknown

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

Maker Morris and Company (British, 1861 - 1940)

Additional Title(s)

Design for Stained Glass

Collections

William Morris Collection

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1904

Mediumwatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions14 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (35.9 x 25.1 cm.)

DescriptionDesign for stained glass: four lights and tracery, showing minstrel angel with cymbals, clarinets adn dulcimers, red wings. Left light shows. Three magi and Madonna and child are shown recumbent on bed of straw under thatched roof in the two central lights, with row of minstrel Angels above and another row below, kneeling and seen behind. Shepherds are shown in the right light.

Inscribedrecto upper left in brown ink: Langport recto lower right in brown ink: Morris & Company / Merton Abbey / Surrey recto lower right in pencil by Sanford Berger: 197-1904 verso upper left in pencil: Langport verso center in graphite by Sanford Berger: Pg. 197 Feb. 19, 1904 / Mr. Stokes / Mr. Titcomb / Mr. Watson

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Object number2000.5.1344