IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13914
accession number:	M.18-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brass, cast, chased, and slightly polished. Nymph (Venus), seated on a tree stump chased with foliage, her left hand on a branch behind her and her right hand holding an apple, her left leg crossed over her right knee. The lower part of the body is partially draped. Smooth slightly polished brown patina. Mounted on a marble plinth, decorated with geometrical design in coloured marbles.
object type: Brass, cast, chased, and slightly polished. The nymph is seated on a tree stump her left hand resting on a branch behind her, and her right hand holding an apple.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Harris Collection, London, by 1930 when lent by him to the Royal Academy's Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900; His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 October 1950, 'The Henry Harris Collection. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of bronzes, sculpture, paintings and works of art of the Renaissance', lot 98, bt Alfred Spero (£360); purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund, 1950.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought with the Leverton Harris Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13914

PEOPLE
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Goddess
Venus

SUBJECTS
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apple
sitting
apple
sitting



CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1550
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1550
culture:	16th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Severo di Ravenna


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900
title:	Natur und Antike in der Renaissance
title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
title:	Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005)
CITATIONS
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Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1950
The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey
Natur und Antike in der Renaissance
The Bronzes of Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, called Antico
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Un riesame dell'opera di Antico
Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 16th December 1971
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