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Drawings Medieval ivory diptych

Object number

LDSAL2020.28.25

Artist/Designer/Maker

Smirke, Richard - Artist

Production date

1835

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 418mm
Width: 262mm

Inscriptions

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R. Smirke, del.

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An Ivory Diptych.
vide Vetusta Monumenta Vol. V.

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B Mus

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 5 (1835): pl. XXI.

Reference (free text)

Adolph Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen: Aus der Zeit der Karolingischen und Sächsischen Kaiser: VIII - XI Jahrhundert (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1969), no. 159, p. 78. Illustration (Photograph), pl. LXX.

Reference (free text)

O M Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era, with Examples of Mohammedan Art and Carvings in Bone in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1909), no. 53, pp. 51-2. Illustration (Photograph), pl. XXX.