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Journal of the History of Collections 2004 16(1):47-58; doi:10.1093/jhc/16.1.47
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Re-discovery, collecting and display of English medieval alabasters

William Anderson

Alabaster production was a major industry in late medieval England, employing various skilled workers who quarried, carved, painted and framed the stone, producing regular-shaped relief panels. Altarpiece arrangements and single panels were acquired by religious institutions and individuals in Britain and other areas of Europe, many of the carvings being exported to France during the Reformation. It was not until the late nineteenth century that significant assessment and recording of alabaster sculpture was undertaken following discoveries of concealed examples in England. This article considers how alabaster sculpture was ‘re-discovered’ as being the product of English workshops and how the carvings were collected and interpreted by antiquarian societies, museums and individuals from the eighteenth century to the present day.

+ Address for correspondence William Anderson, Hooigracht 15, KA007, Leiden 2312 KM, Netherlands.


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