Initial T with a group of Benedictine monks singing before an altar from which issues water, 1430s

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series Title

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

Medium

miniature on vellum

Dimensions

overall: 18.6 x 22.4 cm (7 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 46, State B

Accession Number

1964.8.1219

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

1972: Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 24, repro.

1972: Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972.

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

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, B.

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.