Wedgwood figure of Bacchus, after Michelangelo

An image of Figure. Bacchus. Wedgwood Factory. After Michelangelo Buonarroti. Bacchus stands on an oval straight-sided base beside a tree trunk. He stands on his left leg with right relaxed, holding a wine cup up to his lips with his right hand and his left by his side holding in the hand a goatskin which falls down over the trunk and has two bunches of grapes protruding from it. Black basalt, moulded, height, whole, 27.4 cm, circa 1780-1825. Production Place: England, Staffordshire. Notes: After the marble by Michelangelo (1475-1564), carved for Jacopo Galli c. 1497-8, and now in the Museo Nazionale, Florence.

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Figure. Bacchus. Wedgwood Factory. After Michelangelo Buonarroti. Bacchus stands on an oval straight-sided base beside a tree trunk. He stands on his left leg with right relaxed, holding a wine cup up to his lips with his right hand and his left by his side holding in the hand a goatskin which falls down over the trunk and has two bunches of grapes protruding from it. Black basalt, moulded, height, whole, 27.4 cm, circa 1780-1825. Production Place: England, Staffordshire. Notes: After the marble by Michelangelo (1475-1564), carved for Jacopo Galli c. 1497-8, and now in the Museo Nazionale, Florence.

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Accession Number: C.5-1915
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 296.67kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:07:10 12:21:58

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