IDENTIFIERS
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id:	12191
accession number:	M.3-1902

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 17 June 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze electrotype. Inscribed on the back: 'George Washington/by/Jean Antoine Houdon, 1788/For/Cambridge University, England/A gift from/Jonathan Ackerman Coles, A.B., A.M., M.D./an alumnus of/Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.'
title:	bust

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Given by Jonathan Akerman Coles to the University of Cambridge before 7 June 1902. See xerox of letter in object's file, of June, 1902, addressed to M.R. James from A.W. C , stating that the bust had been given to the University. (Original, Museum Archives, 062648.)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Jonathan Ackerman Coles

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12191

PEOPLE
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Washington, George

SUBJECTS
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male
male



TECHNIQUES
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bronze electrotype
electrotyping

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1860 - 1902
creation date earliest:	1860
creation date latest:	1902
culture:	19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Houdon, Jean-Antoine
maker: Barbedienne, F.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 26.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 57.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 36.5



CITATIONS
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Sculpture Française Il - Renaissance et Temps Modernes, Vol. 2 Goujon - Warin et Anonymes
Houdon 1741-1828, Statues, portraits sculptés . . .
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