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Scene from the Life of Thomas Becket
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Christ Church Cathedral Canterbury England; (family of Miss Gell?); by descent to her son Sir Francis Grayling Sittingbourne Kent (1862-1923) ; dispersed by his stepson Bertram Christian sold; [through Kirsopp Lake]; to the Fogg Art Museum 1924.
Notes:
See box 86 Harvard Art Museum Archives. Grayling's family may have acquired the window from Canterbury Cathedral when the glass was replaced at the end of the 19th century.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter
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