Initial S with King David as Scribe, 1430s

Not on View

series Title

13 Initials from a Choir Book, Antiphonary (1964.8.1218-1230)

Medium

miniature on vellum

Dimensions

overall: 17.6 x 17.3 cm (6 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 46, State A

Accession Number

1964.8.1218

Artists / Makers

Master of the Cypresses (artist) Spanish, active 1434

Image Use

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Provenance

Purchased in Madrid in 1849 by William Stirling-Maxwell [1818 - 1878], London (from an album with his device and bookplate as William Stirling). (Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., New York); purchased 1960 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stirling-Maxwell, William

Exhibition History

1968: Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, no cat.

1972: Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 26, repro.

1975: Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 46a, repro.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

2009: Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

Bibliography

1975: National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 46, A.

1992: Smithsonian Institution Press. New Books for Fall 1992 (1992): cover.

1993: Anderson, Barbara C. "A Fifteenth-Century Illumination and the Work of Pedro de Toledo." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 21 (1993): 21-23, fig. 15.

1993: Bridel, Yves and Adrien Pasquali. Théâtres d'écritures: comment travaillent les écrivains? Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, cover (detail).