Drawings Medieval reliquary in the shape of an arm
Object number
LDSAL2020.28.42
Artist/Designer/Maker
Stokes - Artist
Material
paper
pen
ink
pencil
pen
ink
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Writing (Processes)
Handwriting
Tracing
Writing (Processes)
Handwriting
Tracing
Dimensions
Height: 232mm
Width: 350mm
Width: 350mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Ireland
Bronze arm
(Vetusta Monumenta)
Tracings of Inscr[iptions]
by
Miss Stokes.
Bronze arm
(Vetusta Monumenta)
Tracings of Inscr[iptions]
by
Miss Stokes.
Inscription content
Six corrections and three additions to my drawing of
Inscription of Shrine of
St Lachtin's Arm
Inscription of Shrine of
St Lachtin's Arm
Inscription content
REFORM CLUB,
PALL MALL. S.W.
PALL MALL. S.W.
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.
Seven strips of thin paper with copies (apparently tracings) in ink of the reliquary's inscriptions are glued to a sheet of paper, kept within a paper folder. No. 6 is missing, and a note where it once was reads 'Sixth band lost'. There is also a note in a different hand on a separate sheet of paper (from the Reform Club) querying some points of interpretation.
