Souls Waiting on Earth

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20748

Title

Souls Waiting on Earth

Description

As reflected in the title of this panel, a group of figures anxiously await for their possible salvation from God. The group are simply dressed in cream robes as they huddle together. Some of the figures are seen to be reaching out to the heavens, another holds her head in her hands. In the bottom right corner a woman cradles a baby in her arms.

Artist / maker

Traquair, Phoebe Anna

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 Angle 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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