Angels from The Coronation of the Virgin, after Fra Angelico
after Fra Angelico (Vicchio c.1400 - Rome 1455)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
watercolour on paper
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Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274659
Summary
A pair of watercolours by an unknown artist, after Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55). Gold mount and frame, glazed. (A) Angels in white and gold, some with trumpets, grouped round one in pink on the left. (B) Angels washed in pale pink, blue and cream. In the foreground, two in blue stand, one with back to viewer, one facing. At right, one in pink facing to the right. A group at left rear, two with trumpets raised. Angels are taken from the upper portion of the panel of Fra Angelico’s The Coronation of the Virgin (c.1432). Shaw would have seen the Fra Angelico works (in Florence) during his second trip to Italy with the Art Workers’ Guild in September 1894. The original version of Fra Angelico’s The Coronation of the Virgin is now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.
Makers and roles
after Fra Angelico (Vicchio c.1400 - Rome 1455), artist