IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13990
accession number:	M.16-1979

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 3 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze. Cupid is balanced on his left leg, loosing an arrow (lost). He has a fairly large head, small sloping shoulders, a well-defined chest, pot-belly, indented navel, tiny genitals, and thick-set limbs. His face has a prominent forehead, chubby cheeks, lemon-shaped eyes, a puggish nose and a small double-chin. Modern, cast-on circular base.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: E.G. Raphael Collection, Mayfair; purchased by C.G. Copper, August 1944; sold to Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., January 1945; lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1946; Given anonymously, from the collection of Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., in his memory, 1979.


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: Given anonymously, from the collection of Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., in his memory

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13990

PEOPLE
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Cupid




TECHNIQUES
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copper alloy, probably bronze, cast
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1475 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1475
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	15th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes
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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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975
The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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