The central panel

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20747

Title

The central panel representing The Angel of Death and Purification

Description

A large winged figure of the Angel of Death stands central to this panel. Red flames burst forth from the robes in which a bird sits and another hovers above. Long red wings highlight the flame coloured hair of the angel. The artist has shown her interest in Pre Raphaelite design and the Celtic revival with her use of brushwork and the Celtic knot in the sleeve.

Artist / maker

Traquair, Phoebe Anna

Date

1892

Type

Silk embroidered linen

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC373/1964

These embroideries marked the emergence of Traquair as a designer craft worker with independent iconographic programme.
The central panel representing The Angel of Death and Purification was designed and worked independently. The other two: The Souls of the Blest (completed 1891) and Souls Waiting on Earth (1893) was subsequently added to form a tripartite screen for the artist's home. In them, we can detect resonances of the Pre-Raphaelite styles of Burne-Jones and Rossetti.

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Religion > Religious gods and goddesses > Angels