Accession number
MS M.1142
Object title
Virgin Mary: Annunciation (MS M.1142).
Display Date
1850-1899.
Created
England, 1850-1899.
Credit line
Purchased on the E. Clark Stillman Fund, 2005.
Description
1 leaf (full page miniature), glued on vellum leaf (148 x 107 mm.) : vellum, ill. ; 138 x 98 mm
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 8 June 2005, lot 15; purchased without the frame by the Morgan Library in 2005.
Notes
Ms. single leaf; illuminated in England (?), second half of the 19th century. Verso blank.
Copy of the Annunciation miniature on fol. 19 of Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.248, made in England as the model was in England and exhibited in Leeds in 1868 (MS M.248 is a book of hours for the use of Angers illuminated in Angers by a follower of the Master of Jouvenel des Ursins); this leaf originally with frame with a large iris and repeated foliate scrolls and flower sprays. Verso blank.
Decoration: 1 full page miniature (128 x 87 mm.)
Copy of the Annunciation miniature on fol. 19 of Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.248, made in England as the model was in England and exhibited in Leeds in 1868 (MS M.248 is a book of hours for the use of Angers illuminated in Angers by a follower of the Master of Jouvenel des Ursins); this leaf originally with frame with a large iris and repeated foliate scrolls and flower sprays. Verso blank.
Decoration: 1 full page miniature (128 x 87 mm.)
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