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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

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 484mm
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.

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.