Drawings

Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1940
Accession number: 2000.5.749
Makers: Duncan Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1893–1954); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Dimensions: 19 x 10 3/8 in. (48.3 x 26.4 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lancets and tracery - tracery above shows two minstrel angels with harp and trumpet and dove descending; Joseph and Mary in left lancet, Simon at center holding child, two men and kneeeling woman at right; classical temple in background, tree tops and sky; below on scrolled foliage ground, the scroll reads "MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION."
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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