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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.89
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to School of Nottingham
Title
Adoration of the Magi
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Nativity of Christ and Adoration of the Magi
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
1450-1500
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228772

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Alabaster
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
40 x 26 x 4.2 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Spanish Art Gallery, London], sold; to Seward W. Eric, New York, 1927, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Seward W. Eric
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.89
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Augusta S. Tavender, "Mediaeval English Alabasters in the Fogg Museum", Speculum (July 1959), XXXIV, no. 3, pp. 437-439, no. 71, p. 438, and plate IV
  • Mary Evelyn Stringer, "The Composite Nativity-Adoration of Mediaeval English Alabasters", Bulletin of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March 1970), IX, nos. 3 and 4, pp. 83-89, p. 84, repr.
  • "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 12, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 129 p. 163, repr.
  • Francis Cheetham, Alabaster Images of Medieval England, Association for Cultural Exchange / Boydell Press (Woodbridge, England, 2003), no. 37, p. 84

Exhibition History

  • Christmas Exhibition, Cambridge Trust Company, Cambridge, 12/19/1956 - 01/04/1957

Verification Level

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