IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118320 accession number: M.7-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Slightly convex copper plaque, enamelled in translucent greyish-blue, dark blue, green, mulberry-brown and clear appearing tan, and in semi-translucent pinkish-red, and opaque white and profusely gilded. There is a white preparation under the areas enamelled in greyish-blue, white and pale red. The drawing appears black on the copper or the white preparation. The translucent colours are applied directly over the copper (clearly visible where there is loss of enamel on the edge and elsewhere under magnification). Water is represented by a thin wash of translucent greyish-blue over the dark and white layers with enlevage to produce black wavy lines. The reverse has brownish translucent counter-enamel, tinged here and there with green. The Cumaean Sybil, labelled '(SY)BILLA', and Aeneas, labelled 'ENEAS', stand in the top left corner. At top centre is a label 'I.ET.VII' beside the bell-tower of a flaming tripple-walled castle with a green many-headed Hydra guarding its gates which occupies the top left corner.Outside the walls there is a man bound to a waterwheel, and three men's heads emerging from a mill pond. On the wall above the wheel is a label inscribed 'TI.ION' (?ILION - Troy). Below Aeneas is a label inscribed 'TISIPHONE' beneath which she and another Fury holding snakes, are beating four almost nude men bound to a tree, and another man who leans forward over a devil who is stabbing two men lying on the ground. Below to the right are two men prone, one upwards and one downwards, on a bed of nails, and further to the right, three being cooked in a cauldron attended by a green devil. In the middle, Rhadamanthus, labelled 'FASAMANI9', robed and holding a sceptre, sits on a stool, and behind him on the ground, is a seated man with his right arm raised. A gold chain divides these figures from those below. In the lower left corner, a young man is seated at a table covered by a white cloth and laid for a meal. A bird with a female head stands opposite to him on the table. In the middle three men are seated on the ground , two of them holding a jug. In the lower right corner is a label inscribed 'TITVS' over a vulture which is pecking the thorax of Tityus, who is encircled by a gold chain. Gold is used lavishly for the hair of the figures, outlining of features, and shading. object type: Copper, enamelled in polychrome and gilded with a scene showing Aeneas and the Cumaean Sybil in the Underworld. title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: possibly a late 18th century sale in Amsterdam; unidentified owner; H. Wareham Harding, London, from whom purchased by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118320 PEOPLE ------------------- Vergil Aeneas Cumaen Sibyl Tityus Rhadamanthus Tisiphone SUBJECTS ------------------- Tartarus Tartarus CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels category: Limoges painted enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1527 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1527 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, second quarter# culture: François I CREATORS -------- maker: The Master of the Aeneid Series DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-seventh Annual Report, for the Year 1945 Maleremails aus Limoges, Der Bestand des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums La série de plaques du Maître de L'Éneide Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Sebastian Brandt and the First Illustrated Edition of Vergil Notice d'une collection d'émaux peints par les célèbres maïtres, et formée par les soins de M. d’Hancarville, don’t la vente s’en fera le 10 mai 1791 The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance The Waddeston Bequest, The Legacy of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the British Museum Important European Sculpture and Works of Art The Keir Collection of Medieval Works of Art Attributions to the Aeneid Master Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art Emaux de Limoges de la Renaissance provenant de la collection de M. Hubert de Givenchy Les acquisitions du musée municipal de l’Évêché de Limoges, 2006 Treasures including Selected Works from the Collections of the Dukes of Northumberland Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance The Exceptional Sale Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art Mobilier et objets d'art, tableaux anciens et modernes, haute époque, art d'Asie --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_7_1945_2_201011_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 924 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_7_1945_2_201011_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 554 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_7_1945_2_201011_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 924 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_7_1945_2_201011_mfj22_dc2.jpg 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