Lot 20
  • 20

English, 15th century

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Description

  • A Nottingham Alabaster Relief of St Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read
St Anne wearing a veil, shielding the crowned Virgin with her left hand, the Virgin with flowing hair, holding open a book, traces of polychromy

Catalogue Note

A comparison can be made between the present alabaster and other versions of the same subject in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford and the Church of St John the Evangelist, Tervuren Belgium, all illustrated in Cheetham.

RELATED LITERATURE
Cheetham (2003), pp. 21 & 73, illus. 11 & 12, fig.17