IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13914 accession number: M.18-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brass, cast, chased, and slightly polished. Nymph (Venus), seated on a tree stump chased with foliage, her left hand on a branch behind her and her right hand holding an apple, her left leg crossed over her right knee. The lower part of the body is partially draped. Smooth slightly polished brown patina. Mounted on a marble plinth, decorated with geometrical design in coloured marbles. object type: Brass, cast, chased, and slightly polished. The nymph is seated on a tree stump her left hand resting on a branch behind her, and her right hand holding an apple. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Harris Collection, London, by 1930 when lent by him to the Royal Academy's Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900; His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 October 1950, 'The Henry Harris Collection. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of bronzes, sculpture, paintings and works of art of the Renaissance', lot 98, bt Alfred Spero (£360); purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund, 1950. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Leverton Harris Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13914 PEOPLE ------------------- Goddess Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- apple sitting apple sitting CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Severo di Ravenna EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 title: Natur und Antike in der Renaissance title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) CITATIONS -------- Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1950 The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey Natur und Antike in der Renaissance The Bronzes of Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, called Antico Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Un riesame dell'opera di Antico Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 16th December 1971 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_18_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 599 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_18_1950.jpg height: 634 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_18_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 599 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_18_1950.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/904/large_M_18_1950_mas.jpg height: 1298 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/904/mid_M_18_1950_mas.jpg height: 634 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/904/M_18_1950_mas.jpg height: 2779 pixels width: 2192 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/904/preview_M_18_1950_mas.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels