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.
Henry Huth (1815–1878), London, by 1878, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910), Fosbury House, Hungerford, 1878, by inheritance; Sale, Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, London, 22 November 1911, lot 997. Bernard Quaritch, London, by 1916 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, A catalogue of rare and valuable books including works on Africa, America, Australasia, Greek and Latin Literature and Incunabula, Bernard Quaritch, London, June 1916, lot 705 [did not sell?]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1920, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
2010-2011
Treasures of Heaven. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The British Museum, London.
2007-2008
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. The Field Museum, Chicago; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
2000-2001
Book Arts in the Age of Durer. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore.
1993
Travel in Medieval Manuscripts. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1992
A World of Foreign Lands. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1977-1978
Splendor in Books. Grolier Club, New York; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.