• Walter Leo Hildburgh (1876-1955) was an American art collector, sportsman, traveller, scientist and philanthropist. Hildburgh was born in New York in...
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    by the master himself. It is sometimes known as the Hildburgh Madonna after Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh FSA, who in 1956 donated it to its present owner the...
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    Florence. The statue was given to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F. S. A., in 1956. "Herculas and Antaeus". Victoria and Albert Museum...
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  • 1945–47 FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan 1947–48 H J Fleure 1948–51 Walter Leo Hildburgh 1951–53 Arthur Allan Gomme 1953–55 Margaret Murray 1955 T W Bagshawe...
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    eventually came into the possession of the American art collector Walter Leo Hildburgh, who sold it to the British Museum in 1932. The treasure is one of...
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    London. The tazza was donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Walter Leo Hildburgh in 1956, after being displayed on loan there since 1937. The bowl...
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    iconography. The type was first published in 1933 by the art historian Walter Leo Hildburgh, the leading authority on, and collector of, English alabasters....
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    of China and Japan, champlevé and cloisonné, London, Hale, 1974. Hildburgh, Walter Leo, Medieval Spanish enamels and their relation to the origin and the...
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    Library, note 10 Danaher 1972, pp. 22–25. Danaher 1972, pp. 207–208. Hildburgh, Walter Leo (1946), Apotropaism in Greek vase-paintings "apotropaic eye (art)"...
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