Three Designs from an eighth century Psalter at Blickling Hall, Norfolk1858 Accession number: 1906P1035 Pencil and watercolour on tracing paper. Width: 189 mm Height: 132 mm InformationAccording to Betty Elzea this tracing was probably made in 1858 when Sandys was working on a portrait of his patron Rev. James Bulwer. Lady Suffield owned Blickling Hall and Bulwer acted as her librarian. No doubt it was through him that the artist gained access to the library and made copies of the motifs from the psalter. 'The 'Celtic' design motifs to be seen in his 1858 painting 'Queen Eleanor' were undoubtedly derived from this source' (Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné, p. 141). The psalter is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
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