IDENTIFIERS
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id:	30035
accession number:	M.4-1953

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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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 Walter Leake

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30035

PEOPLE
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angel
Methuselah
boy

SUBJECTS
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axe (tool)
tree
house
axe (tool)
tree
house



TECHNIQUES
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oak panel, carved and painted
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1550
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1550
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Henry VII
culture:	Henry VIII

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 18 1/8

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 9 3/4



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	English Medieval Art