Provenance Provenance Provenance (from the French "provenir", 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books and science and computing. The primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entity is normally to provide contextual and circumstantial evidence for its original production or discovery, by establishing, as far as practicable, its later history, especially the sequences of its formal ownership,
Up to Now (autobiography) relating to other prominent figures such as the British statesman Viscount Grey. Shaw's book was the first of two autobiographies published in 1929 with the title "Up to Now". The second was by the American politician and four-time Governor of New York, Al Smith. As "The Times Literary Supplement" pointed out, the title promised more to come, but although Shaw lived on for another thirty years, he never published a sequel. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, "Up to Now" continued to be used as a source for biographical works on Gordon Craig, Isadora Duncan and Ellen Terry.