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Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross

c. 1430
ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum
Overall: 15.3 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.)
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2001.77
Location: not on view

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Description

Although the Hours of the Virgin are traditionally illustrated with scenes from the early life of Christ, sometimes the Passion of Christ, or the events leading up to and immediately after the Crucifixion, are used. This scene of Christ carrying the cross, used for the sixth hour (Sext), is placed between a scene of flagellation, or beating, and the Crucifixion. This book of hours uses the feminine pronoun in prayers, indicating that it had a female owner.
  • in 1654
    A married couple with initials "M" and "V" and surname initial "L"
    by 1784
    John Ireland, gifted to Clayton Tarleton
    Clayton Tarleton (1762-1797), Liverpool, England
    -1880
    John Walter Tarleton (1811-1880), London, England, by inheritance to his son, Alfred H. Tarleton
    1880-1921
    Alfred H. Tarleton (1862-1921), London, England, by inheritance to his wife Henrietta Charlotte Tarleton
    1921-1951
    Mrs. Henrietta Charlotte Tarleton (1864-1951), London, England
    3 July 1951
    [Sale: Christie's, London, 3 July 1951, lot 50 to Maggs Brothers]
    1951-
    [Maggs Brothers, London (where miniatures were removed and sold indivdidually)]
    21 June 1988
    [Sale: Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1988, lot 17]
    [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
    -2001
    Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2001-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Early Documents and Seals and Autograph Letters ...: Which Will Be Sold at Auction ... on Tuesday, July 3, 1951. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1951. lot 50
    Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, cat. no. 40 archive.org
  • The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).
    Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14, 2014 - January 26, 2015).
    The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).
    Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).
    The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
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