Catalogue entry
T03741 Inscription ‘Homines Divites’ 1922
Portland stone 9 1/2 × 35 1/4 × 1 (237 × 897 × 35)
Inscribed ‘HOMINES . DIVITES . IN . VIRTUTE/PULCHRITUDINIS . STUDIUM . HABENTES/ PACIFICANTES . IN DOMIBUS . SUIS’
Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Commissioned by Lord Carmichael, 1922; bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Lady Carmichael, through the N A–C F, 1947 (Misc. 1–1947)
Exh: Tancred Borenius, Lord Carmichael of Skirling, A Memoir, 1929, pp.272–7; Evan R. Gill, The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill an Inventory, 1964, 413
Lord Carmichael of Skirling, First Baron (1859–1926), who collected, amongst other things, medieval and renaissance sculpture, commissioned the three inscriptions and the sundial (T03741-T03744) for the garden of his house at 13 Portman Street. The garden also contained other inscriptions and some of his sculpture collection… (read more)
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