IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 30035 accession number: M.4-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Oak, carved and painted wood. Carved with a figure of a man sitting in the top of a tree, he grips a bough with his left hand, his right resting on the same branch, he is being spoken to by an angel in the right hand corner. Beside the trunk stands a young man, who holds in his left hand an axe, clasping a chopped off branch with his right. His right foot rests on a shortened branch, his left on the ground. At the base of the tree is an axe with a broken shaft and in the bottom left hand corner a small house. There is a lettered panel top and bottom and scrolls on the two sides: top panel, MAT(HU)SALE(H) BILD A/HVS; left and right scrolls, IVO BILD A HOV(SE) VORS(ELF) and BR(IN)G VI MIAS BOI SA??; and bottom panel, FATHER HOLD Y AX title: panel (wood) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bequeathed by an elderly King's Lynn lady to Fred Partridge (solicitor, died 1929). Given to W. Leake (Boynton House, Hunstanton, Norfolk) by the daughters of F. Partridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Walter Leake STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30035 PEOPLE ------------------- angel Methuselah boy SUBJECTS ------------------- axe (tool) tree house axe (tool) tree house TECHNIQUES ---------- oak panel, carved and painted carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Henry VII culture: Henry VIII CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 18 1/8 dimension: Width units: in value: 9 3/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Medieval Art