IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 15309 accession number: C.15-1983 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Square, off-white, dust-pressed earthenware tile. Transfer printed design shows an allegorical figure of ‘Architecture’ holding an opened scroll and a pair of dividers, sitting on steps and leaning against a Corinthian capital. In the background are diagrams of two classically-inspired buildings; in the foreground, a set-square and plumb line. The figures and objects are filled with shaded blocks of colour. The woman’s under-shirt is blue, edged with yellow, and covered by a flowing magenta robe with green lining. Her hair, shoes and the capital are brown. The back of the tile is pressed into coffered squares, unglazed. object type: Earthenware, transfer-printed, hand-painted and glazed, in painted wood frame title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mrs Joan Eve, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the J.R.V. Smyth Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15309 PEOPLE ------------------- Hollins, Michael Daintry Minton, Herbert Campbell, Colin Minton Prosser, Richard Architecture SUBJECTS ------------------- architecture architecture TECHNIQUES ---------- dust-pressed earthenware moulded on one side, transfer-printed and hand-painted dust-pressing TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer-printing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: dust-pressed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1875 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1880 culture: 19th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Minton Hollins & Co. maker: unidentified artist DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Collecting Victorian Tiles Tiles and Tilework of Europe Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production Minton 1798-1910 Dictionary of Minton --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_15_1983.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_C_15_1983.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_15_1983.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_C_15_1983.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels