These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
The Death of Lucretia
Maker: Grue, Carlo Antonio
Maiolica panel, painted in polychrome with The Death of Lucretia.
Greyish-buff earthenware, discoloured darker, tin-glazed on the front. The glaze surface has been pitted in firing, especially along the lower edge, and it has crawled in the lower left corner, on the lower edge near the lower right corner, and on the top edge. Painted in greyish-blue, pale olive-green, yellow, orange, and brown.
Rectangular.
The Death of Lucretia. Tarquinius Collatinus (or Brutus) stands in the middle holding a dagger with which Lucretia has killed herself. She lies on the ground in front of an ornate cabinet. Beside it three soldiers and a woman are observing him. Two more men stand to the right, and another in armour stands aloof from the action, on the extreme right. In the background to left is a draped-up curtain, to right, a torquate column, and in the distance, temples and other buildings. The lower left corner is signed in brown `CAG.P.'.
History note: Lord Blantyre; by descent to his granddaughter, Miss Evelyn Gladstone; Sotheby's, 7 November 1941, lot 7 (1)
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Depth: 2.8 cm
Height: 26.0 cm
Length: 57.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1941) by Sotheby's
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1700
The design must surely have been derived from an engraving but it has not yet been identified.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( greyish-blue, pale olive-green, yellow, orange, and brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: C smaller raised A G.P
Accession number: EC.33-1941
Primary reference Number: 76950
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Death of Lucretia" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76950 Accessed: 2024-11-23 08:16:28
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76950
|title=The Death of Lucretia
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-23 08:16:28|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76950
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/EC_33_1941.jpg"
alt="The Death of Lucretia"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">The Death of Lucretia</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
