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The Assassination of Marat
Factory: Lakin & Poole
Earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in polychrome enamels and gilded.
Earthenware, with blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearl glaze), painted in blue, turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange-red, pale purple, purple, maroon, buff, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The figures are supported on a straight-sided low rectangular base, which is recessed and glazed underneath and has a round ventilation hole under each figure. The top of the base is coloured pale yellow, buff and grey to resemble marble and has on the front a black outlined label inscribed 'The Assassination of MARAT./by CHARLOTTE.CORDE./of Caen, in Normandy./1793'. Charlotte stands on the viewer's right, facing to the front, holding a dagger in her right hand (blade missing), and holding out her left arm to her left. She has long grey hair, and wears a high-crowned hat with a green band and a complex bow on the front, a gold necklace, a black ribbon with gold slide on her right wrist, a green petticoat, a white dress decorated with scattered floral sprays and a purple bow at the back, a white pinafore and fichu, a gold belt, and orange-red shoes. Marat sprawls on the base to the viewer's left, supporting himself on his right arm and raising his left towards his attacker. He has grey hair (or wig), dressed in a queue,a pink jacket with turquoise collar and lining and marroon buttons, a pale mauve waistcoat scattered with purple sprigs and circles, and purple buttons, grey breeches with maroon kneebands and buttons, blue striped stockings and black shoes. Orange-red blood streams from a gash in his chest towards the base.
History note: A.G.Smith, Wardour Street, from whom purchased on 17 February 1904 for £12.12s. 0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 35 cm
Height: 35 cm
Length: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (71928-12) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1794
-
1795
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) was murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday. The group, which does not show the bath, was based on a print by Isaac Cruickshank, 'A Second Jean D'Arc or the Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corde of Caen in Normandy on Sunday July 14 1793', published in July 1793.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange-red, pale purple, purple, maroon, buff, brown, grey, and black)
gold
Base
Length 21 cm
Width 11.6 cm
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with a narrow blue border with trefoils inside the corners
Accession number: C.939-1928
Primary reference Number: 76413
Old object number: 2018
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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