IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77336 accession number: M.7-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 23 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Calcium-sulphate-plaster head incorporating a cast life mask of William Blake. The neck rises from an integrally-cast circular plaster socle. The exterior is covered with a wax-shellac coating. In a black tin trunk (A) with key (B) not accessioned title: life mask LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Lady Richmond STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77336 PEOPLE ------------------- Blake, William SUBJECTS ------------------- head head TECHNIQUES ---------- Calcium sulphate plaster-cast, with an unpigmented yellow(ed) wax-shellac coating. With a few further localised patches of thicker, orange, shellac, perhaps contemporaneous additions or later repairs. casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1823 - 1823 creation date earliest: 1823 creation date latest: 1823 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Deville, James S. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 26 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: William Blake (2000) title: William Blake title: William Blake, Apprentice and Master title: William Blake's Universe CITATIONS -------- The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Incarnation of William Blake William Blake --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_7_1947_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 753 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_m_7_1947_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 680 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_7_1947_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 753 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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