Plaque of Apollo Musagetes, by Wedgwood & Bentley

An image of Plaque of Apollo Musagetes. Wedgwood & Bentley, Staffordshire. Oval, the god stands on a projecting base, resting his left elbow on his lyre which stands upright on a tripod stand. There are two holes in the reverse behind the base, and four behind the figure. Jasper, pale bluish-grey with darker blue surface and press-moulded and applied white relief, height, whole, 16.7 cm, width, whole, 11.7 cm,
circa 1775- 1780. Neoclassical. Production Note: This Apollo from a set of Apollo and the Muses is probably the one partly supplied by Flaxman Senior in March 1775: Apollo, Melpomene, Thalia and Terpsichore, Euterpe.

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Plaque of Apollo Musagetes. Wedgwood & Bentley, Staffordshire. Oval, the god stands on a projecting base, resting his left elbow on his lyre which stands upright on a tripod stand. There are two holes in the reverse behind the base, and four behind the figure. Jasper, pale bluish-grey with darker blue surface and press-moulded and applied white relief, height, whole, 16.7 cm, width, whole, 11.7 cm, circa 1775- 1780. Neoclassical. Production Note: This Apollo from a set of Apollo and the Muses is probably the one partly supplied by Flaxman Senior in March 1775: Apollo, Melpomene, Thalia and Terpsichore, Euterpe.

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Accession Number: C.103-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 733 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 471.04kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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