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Standing Virgin holding Christ Child

Image attached to M.3-1989

An image of TURNER, Alfred
'Standing Virgin holding Christ Child'
Plaster, treated with wax and toned with clay and shellac; integral rectangular base.
Presumed to be a cast of the model for the silver group exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in 1912 (no. 1835), but it is shown as a work in progress in some photographs of Turner apparently taken and certainly published in the summer of 1921.
England
C.1921

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TURNER, Alfred 'Standing Virgin holding Christ Child' Plaster, treated with wax and toned with clay and shellac; integral rectangular base. Presumed to be a cast of the model for the silver group exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in 1912 (no. 1835), but it is shown as a work in progress in some photographs of Turner apparently taken and certainly published in the summer of 1921. England C.1921

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  • Accession Number: M.3-1989
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Aperture: f/20.0
  • Focal length: 135
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 760 pixels
  • Image width: 507 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
  • Filesize: 59.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 20/1
  • Captured: 2008:09:05 16:12:19

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