Electrotype figure of George Frideric Handel as Apollo, after Roubiliac

An image of Sculpture/Figure. George Frideric Handel as Apollo. Elkington & Co., England. Roubiliac, Louis François, after (French, 1702-1762 ). Reduced copy of the marble by Roubiliac. The pedestal is inscribed on the front. Bronze electrotype, height, figure, 34.5 cm, width, figure, 18.3 cm, diameter, figure, 27.3 cm, height, base, 20.5 cm, width, base, 20.7 cm, diameter, base, 27.6 cm, circa 1859.

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Sculpture/Figure. George Frideric Handel as Apollo. Elkington & Co., England. Roubiliac, Louis François, after (French, 1702-1762 ). Reduced copy of the marble by Roubiliac. The pedestal is inscribed on the front. Bronze electrotype, height, figure, 34.5 cm, width, figure, 18.3 cm, diameter, figure, 27.3 cm, height, base, 20.5 cm, width, base, 20.7 cm, diameter, base, 27.6 cm, circa 1859.

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Accession Number: M.2-1986
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 382.38kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2016:11:02 11:42:09

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