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Box of Colors for Illumination & Missal Painting
1850-1860
wood, gold, silver, colors, porcelain
The box contains gold and silver; ten bottles of colors; porcelain dishes; three brushes and two sheets of instructions.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Wilsey Rare Books, Olivebridge, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1988, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2024-2025 | If Books Could Kill. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2015-2016 | Henry Walters, Léon Gruel, and the Reinvention of the Medieval Manuscript . |
| 2009 | The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, London (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1988
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
1988.29.1
