Description
Although the Hours of the Virgin are traditionally illustrated with scenes from the early life of Christ, sometimes the Passion of Christ, or the events leading up to and immediately after the Crucifixion, are used. This scene of Christ carrying the cross, used for the sixth hour (Sext), is placed between a scene of flagellation, or beating, and the Crucifixion. This book of hours uses the feminine pronoun in prayers, indicating that it had a female owner.
Provenance
A married couple with initials "M" and "V" and surname initial "L" (in 1654); John Ireland, gifted to Clayton Tarleton (by 1784); Clayton Tarleton (1762-1797), Liverpool, England; John Walter Tarleton (1811-1880), London, England, by inheritance to his son, Alfred H. Tarleton (-1880); Alfred H. Tarleton (1862-1921), London, England, by inheritance to his wife Henrietta Charlotte Tarleton (1880-1921); Mrs. Henrietta Charlotte Tarleton (1864-1951), London, England (1921-1951); [Sale: Christie's, London, 3 July 1951, lot 50 to Maggs Brothers] (3 July 1951); [Maggs Brothers, London (where miniatures were removed and sold indivdidually)] (1951-); [Sale: Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1988, lot 17] (21 June 1988); [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]; Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art (-2001); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2001-)
Accession Number
2001.77
Medium
ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum
Dimensions
Overall: 15.3 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Manuscript
Credit Line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
