IDENTIFIERS
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id:	13946
accession number:	M.8-1953

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze, cast, and gilt. Bacchus stands with the weight of his body on the left foot. Nude except for a feline pelt draped over his right shoulder, the end of which is held in his left hand. His right forearm rests on top of a tree-stump, a large bunch of grapes in his right hand. He wears a vine-wreath in his hair. Alabaster base.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Harris Collection; 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 Italian Renaissance, the property of Henry Harris (decd.)', lot 68, part 1; bought A. Spero (£42); Marmaduke Langdale Horn, Stoke Charity, near Winchester.


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: Marmaduke Langdale Horn Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13946

PEOPLE
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Bacchus

SUBJECTS
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grapes
vines
grapes
vines



CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.9



CITATIONS
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Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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