icon;
painting;
oklad
- Museum number
- 1998,0605.8
- Title
- Object: The Mother of God Vladimirskaya
- Description
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Icon; painted; the Virgin is depicted half-length with Christ seated on her right arm and tenderly embracing her neck with both his hands. The revetment is decorated with a running foliate scroll.
Egg tempera, gold and gesso on wood, gilt metal revetment.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.80 centimetres
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Thickness: 2.40 centimetres
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Width: 25.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The icon is executed in the style of the 16th century, a style much in demand by Old Believers in the 19th century. The background and haloes are covered with a gilded revetment (‘basma’) made of small pieces of metal dating from different periods.
For the iconography see cat. no. 12 and for similar icons cat. nos 35 and 58.
Published:
Cormack 2007, 122, no. 40
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The gilding on Christ’s ‘himation’ is slightly worn; the paint layers have been covered with an artificial net of craquelure in a deliberate attempt to make the icon appear older than it is.
- 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
- 1998,0605.8
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IC 40 (Icon Collection number)
