IDENTIFIERS
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id:	29233
accession number:	M.1-1822

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Posthumous portrait bust of the English politician, William Pitt the Younger. Plaster, cast. The sitter's head is turned, facing and looking slightly left. He wears an overcoat and waistcoat with jabot and neck-cloth, and a gown of (?) the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Inscribed along the terminating edge of the gown: 'The Rt. Honble. William Pitt', and 'G. Garrard/fecit May 30 (?) 1808'. At the time of his death in 1806, Pitt was in office for his third term as Prime Minister.
title:	bust

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 by George Garrard, ARA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29233

PEOPLE
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Pitt, William




TECHNIQUES
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plaster, cast
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1808 - 1808
creation date earliest:	1808
creation date latest:	1808
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Garrard, George

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 78.1



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings & c., bequeathed to the University of Cambridge  by the late Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam in the year 1816
Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University Collection
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851
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