John Milton, by John Michael Rysbrack

Bust/Sculpture. John Milton (1608-1674). Rysbrack, John Michael (Briitsh, 1694-1770). The sitter is turned front, facing and looking slightly right. He is bare-headed, and his hair is falling long over the shoulders. He is clean-shaven. The sitter wears a doublet, with wide, falling-band collar, and drapery passing over the right shoulder, and under the left arm. The bust terminates in a low square base, inscribed on the front 'MILTON'. Terracotta, height 23 1/2 inches, dated 1738.

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• Accession Number: M.2-1932
• Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Aperture: f/19.0
• Focal length: 80
• Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
• Photographer name: Andrew Norman
• Image height: 1050 pixels
• Image width: 788 pixels
• Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
• Filesize: 531.51kB
• Exposure time: 1/60
• ISO Speed: 100
• Fnumber: 19/1
• Captured: 2010:10:31 02:37:14

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