IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 30480 accession number: M.9-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wax, coloured green, greyish-blue, pink, dark pink, stone, brown, grey and black and gilt. Three-quarter length figure of Voltaire facing to left, his hat and stick in front of him and both arms extended over a shelf or table. He holds a ring in his left hand and his right is over a jewel box on the table. To its left (viewer's left) is a back, and below his arm, a bunch of three roses, two books and further to the right a paper. Black background. In rectangular gilt wood and glass frame. title: three-quarter figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30480 PEOPLE ------------------- Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet SUBJECTS ------------------- book hat walking stick ring jewellery box roses book hat walking stick ring jewellery box roses CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar CITATIONS -------- Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers ---