The Pietà: the Virgin embraces the body of Christ. Gouache.
- Date:
- [19--]
- Reference:
- 3025730i
- Part of:
- Adamson Collection
- Pictures
About this work
Description
The abbey at Königsfelden in Switzerland was converted into a mental hospital, and the present work was painted in a mental hospital (Netherne Hospital)
Publication/Creation
[Netherne, Surrey], [19--]
Physical description
1 painting : gouache ; sheet 30.8 x 12.8 cm
Series
Contributors
Lettering
Descent from the Cross. Swiss stained glass of the 14th century from the church of Koenigsfelden
Notes
This work is untitled, the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3025730i
Creator/production credits
Executed at Netherne Hospital in Surrey. The painter expressed a preference that works by the same painter in a different genre should be anonymous. No such preference is known to have been expressed for the present work, or for others in the same genre, but the name of the painter has been withheld from this catalogue in the absence of an expressed wish to the contrary
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores