HIC JACET
Memorial Tablet
1923 (made)
1923 (made)
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This tablet was almost certainly aquired by the British Institute of Industrial Art as an example of lettering in stone. On acquisition it was said to date from 1923. The Latin inscription reads: H I C J A C E T / ANNA / HOPE / QUIOBIIT / MCMXXI (Here lies Anna Hope, who died in 1921).
Object details
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| Title | HIC JACET (named collection) |
| Materials and techniques | Slate, with incised lettering |
| Brief description | Memorial tablet, slate with incised lettering, HIC JACET, by unrecorded artists at the Arts and Craft Memorial Society, England, 1923 |
| Physical description | Memorial tablet, slate, incised lettering. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'HIC . JACET / ANNA / HOPE / QUI . OBIT / MCMXXI'
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| Credit line | Given by the British Institute of Industrial Art |
| Object history | Given by the British Institute of Industrial Art to the Museum in 1934 together with Mus. No. A.36-1934. Displayed at the Bethnal Green Museum. Received by the B.I.I.A. from the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924. |
| Summary | This tablet was almost certainly aquired by the British Institute of Industrial Art as an example of lettering in stone. On acquisition it was said to date from 1923. The Latin inscription reads: H I C J A C E T / ANNA / HOPE / QUIOBIIT / MCMXXI (Here lies Anna Hope, who died in 1921). |
| Bibliographic reference | Bilbey, Diane with Trusted, Marjorie. British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum London, 2002, p. 450, cat. no. 741 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.48-1934 |
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| Record created | January 14, 2003 |
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