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Window with Eight Apostles, the Pietà, and other Saints

Window with Eight Apostles, the Pietà, and other Saints

about 1420–35
Medium/TechniquePot-metal glass; flashed glass, and white glass with silver-oxide stain; modern limestone tracery
Dimensions263 x 563 cm (103 9/16 x 221 5/8 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession number25.213.1-21
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ClassificationsGlass
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InscriptionsSeveral located around each apostle or saint's head and at their feet.
Provenance1420, most probably commisioned for the Hereford Catheral; about 1435, transferred to the Chapel of Hampton Court, Herefordshire; 1924, bought by Wilfred Drake and Grosvenor Thomas, London; 1925, sold by Drake and Thomas to the MFA for $94000. (Accession date: June 4, 1925)