IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12290 accession number: M.1-1908 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast from model for bronze statue at Eastbourne (1901). Full-length, seated, turned front, facing and looking half right, left hand hanging beside the chair, holding a book, right hand on chair-arm, in robes of Chancellor of University. Bare-headed; bushy side-whiskers. Wears court dress with bands, collar of the Garter with the Garter George over robes, the Garter round left leg, feet resting on a footstool. Heavy carved chair. Signed on chair right: 'W.Goscombe John.A.R.A.' Mounted on a marble plinth incised with inscription. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Commissioned from the sculptor by the Committee and subscribers; given by the Committee and subscribers to the University of Cambridge, and placed in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Grace 1 & 2, Feb. 1908). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given to the University by the Committee and Subscribers and placed in the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12290 PEOPLE ------------------- Willaim Cavendish, Seventh Duke of Devonshire SUBJECTS ------------------- male male CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1907 - 1907 creation date earliest: 1907 creation date latest: 1907 culture: Edward VII culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Goscombe John, Sir William CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University Collection Goscombe John at the National Museum of Wales ---