IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14009 accession number: M.2-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze, cast, and chased, mounted later on breccia ball and wooden socle. Mercury stands balanced on his right leg on a green and red breccia marble ball. His left leg is thrust out stiffly behind him. His left hand rests on his hip, and his right arm is raised, the hand shaped to grasp a slim rod held roughly horizontally. His head is thrust sharply back, the face turned upwards. His lips are pursed, and his mouth shaped as a nozzle pierced in the centre with a round hole (diam 6mm). In the centre of the figure's back is a large irregular oval aperture (7.8 x 3.7 cm) cast with a rebate designed to receive a closely fitted cover. object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze, cast, and chased, mounted later on breccia ball and wooden socle. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Commissioned in 1515 by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, Palazzo Medici, Florence; Sir Francis Cook Bt, Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey (d.1901); 1901, by inheritance, Wyndham Francis Cook, London (where catalogued by Arthur Banks Skinner); 1905 by inheritance, Humphrey Wyndham Cook, London; His sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1925, lot 242, bt Henry Harris, London; 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 Italian Renaissance', lot 106, illustrated as frontispiece; bt Sylvia Adams for Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C.; Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C. in his memory. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Boscawen Collection creditline: Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14009 PEOPLE ------------------- Mercury TECHNIQUES ---------- copper alloy, probably bronze, cast, and chased, mounted later on breccia ball and wooden socle. casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1515 - 1515 creation date earliest: 1515 creation date latest: 1515 culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Rustici, Giovanni Francesco EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 title: Mostra Medicea title: Italian Bronze Statuettes title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes title: Art Treasures of England, The Regional Collections title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) title: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence title: I Grandi del Battistero. Rustici e Leonardo title: Il genio del Andrea del Verrocchio CITATIONS -------- Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architettori Catalogue of the Art Collection, 8 Cadogan Square, S.W.1 Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, being a Portion of the Collection Formed by the Late Sir F. Cook, Bart. Gianfrancesco Rustici The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and Their Followers from Donatello to Bernini Rustici New Attributions to G.F. Rustici Storia dell'Arte Italiana. X: La Scultura del Cinquecento, part I Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 24th October 1950 Italian Bronze Statuettes Giovan Francesco Rustici Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture Vite A Fountain by Rustici Guide des Bronzes de la Renaissance Italienne Il perduto 'David mediceo' di Giovanfrancesco Rustici e il 'David' Pulszky del Louvre The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1997 Giambologna. An exhibition of sculpture by the master and his followers from the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq. The Fitzwilliam Museum 1848-1998, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting Art Treasures of England, The Regional Collections Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Bronze collector with the golden touch Large Bronzes in the Renaissance Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_2_1997_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 463 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_2_1997_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 463 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_2_1997_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 463 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_2_1997_281_29.jpg height: 410 pixels width: 250 pixels 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