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The Prophet Elijah and the Ravens
Production:
Wood, Ralph II
Production:
Wood, Ralph III
(Perhaps)
Lead-glazed earthenware figure of Elijah and the Raven painted in polychrome enamels
White earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, salmon, dark red, purple, brown, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a shallow square base decorated with a horizontal dark red line, and the name 'Elijah' on the front. The underside has curved sides and a central ventilation hole (blocked). The prophet is seated in front of a tree on a rock with a stream of water flowing from it over a mound .He has his left leg forward and holds his hands one above the other in front of him to receive food. He looks upwards towards the viewer's right. A raven is perched in the tree above his head. He has brown hair and beard, and wears a salmon-coloured cap, a white gown decorated with floral sprigs and spots, a black belt, a white cloak with a yellow lining, and sandals with dark red straps. The rock and the mound are painted naturalistically in brown, turquoise, yellow and green, and the stream in pale grey.
History note: Private house sale at Wisbech; bought for £6 with its companion Widow of Zarapeth by Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchase for £8 on 24 February 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 12.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1790
-
1801
The story of Elijah being instructed by God to travel eastwards and hide himself by a brook called Cherith, where he would be fed by Ravens, is told in the Bible, I Kings, 17, 1-7. On this model the raven who should be perching beside him on the rock is missing, except for its lower part.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, salmon, flesh pink, purple, red, brown, grey and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( very slightly blue tinted)
Base
Width 11.4 cm
white Earthenware
Moulding : White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, salmon pink, purple, red, brown, grey, and black enamels
Accession number: C.881B-1928
Primary reference Number: 76283
Old object number: 2604
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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