IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13980 accession number: M.2-1971 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast. Rectangular. Perseus, nude but for wings in his hair, winged sandals and a drape over his left shoulder and arm, stands on the right, holding out his right hand to take Andromeda's left wrist, to save her from being devoured by the sea monster in the sea below. She stands on a tall rock on the left, looking down towards him. She wears a diaphanous dress and a billowing shawl which she holds to her with her right hand. title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: David Peel; Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1971, lot 134 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/13980 PEOPLE ------------------- Perseus Andromeda SUBJECTS ------------------- sea monster sea monster TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze plaque in relief casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, second half# CREATORS -------- maker: Zoffoli, Giovanni maker: Zoffoli, Giacomo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.3 CITATIONS -------- The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Bronze Statuettes by Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli Admiranda Romanorum Antiquitatum Reliefs ---