Drawings Medieval reliquary in the shape of an arm
Object number
LDSAL2020.28.41
Artist/Designer/Maker
Stothard, Robert - Artist
Production date
1839
Material
Paper
Pencil
Watercolour
Pencil
Watercolour
Technique
Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Dimensions
Height: 484mm
Width: 301mm
Width: 301mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
A bronze Arm, an Irish reliquary
From the Collection of the late Sir A. Fountaine
Vetusta Mon. Vol. VI. pl. 19.
From the Collection of the late Sir A. Fountaine
Vetusta Mon. Vol. VI. pl. 19.
Inscription content
R. Stothard delt.
References
Reference (free text)
Patrick F Wallace and Raghnall Ó Floinn (eds.), Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2002), no. 6:4, p. 224.
Illustration (Photography), p. 218.
Reference (free text)
Vetusta Monumenta 6 (1821-1883): pl. XIX.
'Description of a Bronze Arm, an Irish Reliquary, from the Collection of the late Sir Andrew Fountaine'.
The text refers to the translation of the inscriptions by Sir William Bentham of Ulster.
Reference (free text)
Griffin Murray, 'The Arm-Shaped Reliquary of St Lachtin: Technique, Style, and Significance', in Colum Hourihane, ed., Irish Art Historical Studies in Honour of Peter Harbison (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 141-64.
Reference (free text)
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, ed., A New History of Ireland. I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Illustration, pl. 93a.