• Title: High Altar-Latten, Nr Tipperary
  • Reference Code: IE/NIVAL EC/303
  • Level of Description: Item
  • Creation Dates: 1869
  • Extent And Medium: Paper Size: 64.9 x 54.9 cms Technique: Pencil, Pen & Ink
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  • Repository: NIVAL

Scope and Content

Elevation design for marble and stonecarved High Altar, including, altar table, tabernacle, candlebench, reredos and canopy. Decorated with gothic architectural motifs, sculpted angels and scrolling vine ornament, and relief carvings of the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Flight into Egypt, and the Coronation of the Virgin to the Rerdos, and a carving of the Pieta on the Altar table. Also decorated with columns of coloured marble.

Annotated in pen, 'Latten, near Tipperary, Grand High Altar, Earley & Powells 1896'.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Bad foxing, torn around edges.

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