icon;
painting;
triptych
- Museum number
- 1998,0605.19.b
- Title
- Object: St John the Baptist (from a Deesis)
- Description
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Icon; painted in egg tempera on wood; St John the Baptist stands full-length and turned to the left in adoration of Christ who would have been on the missing central panel. He wears a hermit's goat-skin under a 'himation'; his right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing and he holds a scroll in his left. Inscription in Church Slavonic on the scroll held by the saint.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.60 centimetres
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Thickness: 2 centimetres
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Width: 14.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
-
See the comments for cat. no. 61.
Published:
Cormack 2007, 125, no. 52
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Part of deesis with 1998,0605.19.a
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Made from a single panel with a shallow ‘kovcheg’; two inserted battens on the reverse. A few fragments of an earlier painting were inserted into a new panel and then restored around the end of the 19th century in a style imitating a much older icon; this work was probably commissioned by an Old Believer. The icon belongs to the same set as the preceding icon (cat. no. 61).
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- See 1998,0605.1 Most of the items catalogued under 1998,0605 were acquired by Sir Frank Roberts’ wife, Cella.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1998,0605.19.b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IC 52 (Icon Collection number)
