drawing
- Museum number
- 1975,0301.55
- Description
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Decorating an altar; a boy climbing up to help a cleric adorn the altar, a woman seated below arranging flowers, candlesticks in foreground. 1885
Bodycolour, mounted on board used for trial colours
- Production date
- 1885
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Height: 382 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres (whole board)
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Width: 124 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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'Werken Adolf von Menzels', Kgl. National-Galerie, Berlin, spring 1905, no. 299.
- Acquisition date
- 1975
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Provenance (Tate Gallery Report, Acquisitions, 1.iv.1954 - 31.iii.1955, no. 6259): Bequeathed by Mrs N N Robbins, London; previously owned by Mrs A Meyer-Cohn, Berlin.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1975,0301.55
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: TG.6259