IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14034 accession number: M.34-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze standing figure of Orpheus, holding a long-handled stringed instrument in his proper left hand, down by his proper left side. In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a musician, poet and prophet, son of the Thracian king Oeagrus and Muse Calliope. His musical gifts enabled him to enchant wild beasts, birds and fish. Orpheus is frequently depicted with a lyre, the musical instrument which Apollo taught him to play as an adolescent. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Spero; sold in 1946 to Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (invoice date 1 July 1946); bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Boscawen Collection creditline: Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14034 PEOPLE ------------------- Orpheus TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes CITATIONS -------- The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_34_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 489 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_34_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 489 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_34_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 489 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_34_1997.jpg height: 389 pixels width: 250 pixels