The mocking of Ceres
Printmaker:
Mander, Karel III van
Painter:
Elsheimer, Adam
(After)
Height: 229 mm
Width: 161 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
17th Century
Circa
1630
-
Circa
1670
With blank margin. Loosely based on Elsheimer's composition.
Accession number: 24.I.4-35
Primary reference Number: 129724
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "The mocking of Ceres" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/129724 Accessed: 2023-02-01 03:37:01
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|title=The mocking of Ceres
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-01 03:37:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.929-1928
Accession Number: 180
Accession Number: M.24-1933
Accession Number: P.6-1948
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