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St George's Altar

St George's Altar is an altar.

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Identity

What the record establishes about St George's Altar.

Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens. is dated 1810-1819 and held by Wellcome Collection. St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London: the interior with a lady and her daughter near the altar, a man half-hidden behind the pews to the left. Engraving. is catalogued and held by Wellcome Collection. A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805. is dated April 22d. 1805 and held by Wellcome Collection. Prints and negatives relating to period from First Battle of Ypres to the following summer, Northern France is dated October 1914-June 1915 and held by Wellcome Collection. An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852. is dated 23 April 1852 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 5 objects associated with this heading.

St George's Altar is recorded as held by National Gallery Prague. St George's Altar is associated with Czech Republic.

Authority records

The identifiers under which St George's Altar may be traced in institutional catalogues.

St George's Altar is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q23891842.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

“ST. GEORGE AND THE DONOR,” PORTION OF AN ALTAR-PIECE, Notes and Queries, 1880. Master of the Altar of St Barbara, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. “St. George and the donor,” portion of an altar-piece, Notes and Queries, 1880. The Altar, George Herbert: 100 Poems, 2016.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 1 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1805A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1805A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805. is dated April 22d. 1805 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  3. 1810Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1810Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens. is dated 1810-1819 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  5. 1852An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852. (Wellcome Collection).
  6. 1852An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852. is dated 23 April 1852 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 1914Prints and negatives relating to period from First Battle of Ypres to the following summer, Northern France (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 1914Prints and negatives relating to period from First Battle of Ypres to the following summer, Northern France is dated October 1914-June 1915 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 2024Solothurn, Domschatz der St.-Ursen-Kathedrale, Cod. U 3 : Spiegelberger Missal digitised by DataCite (e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “St George's Altar”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Master of the Altar of St Barbara, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Master of the St Augustine Altar, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    The Altar, George Herbert: 100 Poems, 2016

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 5 works naming St George's Altar.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  6. 6.

    “St George's Altar”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q23891842: St George's Altar

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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