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Wedgwood figure of Bacchus, after Michelangelo

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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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