Writing Tablet with Scenes from the Lives of Virgil and Aristotle
This writing tablet has a depression for wax on the underside, but the lid that protected the wax is missing. Legends about wily women making fools of intelligent men from classical times were very popular in the late Middle Ages. The relief on this writing tablet contains t...
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John Lumsden Propert, London [1834-1902]; Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London; Thomas Gibson-Carmichael Sale, London, May 12, 1902, no. 2; H. Wareham Harding, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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