id:			149148
accession number:	1977.71
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.71
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:41.651000

Effigy of an Abbot, c. 1225. England, Dorset, 13th century. Purbeck marble; overall: 105.1 x 48.3 x 22 cm (41 3/8 x 19 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1977.71

title:				Effigy of an Abbot
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creation date:			c. 1225
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1250
current location:		
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	England, Dorset, 13th century
technique:	Purbeck marble
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 105.1 x 48.3 x 22 cm (41 3/8 x 19 x 8 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1977
	opening date:   1977-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1977</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Cerne Abbey, Dorset, England
	date: -1810
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	Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset, England
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	Capt. George Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966), Farnham, Dorset, England
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	Pitt-Rivers Museum Trustee Co., Farnham, Dorset, England
	date: 1966
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	Mrs. Stella Pitt-Rivers Maumen (1913-1994),
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	(Howard Ricketts, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: -1977
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1977-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hutchins, John. <em>The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset</em>, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1863.
	page number: 	Vol. 4, p. 27, Fig. 2
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	G. Dru Drury, "Early Ecclesiastical Effigies in Dorset," <em>Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Procs.</em> III (1931).
	page number: 	pp. 257-9, plate V
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	Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, <em>An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, </em>I, West Dorset (1952).
	page number: 	p. 77
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	<em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts </em>VI per., XCI (March 1978).
	page number: 	p. 39, no. 182
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	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1977." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 1 (1978).
	page number: 	p. 8, cat. no. 17
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159560

	"Annual Report for 1977." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 6 (1978).
	page number: 	pp. 182-83
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159587

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