IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14044 accession number: M.40-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze, cast. The nymph is seated with her left leg extended. Her right arm is raised and bent at the elbow, and she rests her head on her right hand. Her left hand rests between her thighs. The bronze is supported by a shallow circular marble plinth attached to a rectangular dark green veined marble plinth. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Spero, London; sold 19 November 1937 (£300) to Lt Col the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC; bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek; 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts 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/14044 PEOPLE ------------------- nymph SUBJECTS ------------------- sleeping sleeping TECHNIQUES ---------- copper alloy, probably bronze, cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 16th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 15 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Bronze Statuettes title: Art Vénétien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment title: The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces CITATIONS -------- Italian Bronze Statuettes Art Vénétien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Update, Bronzes in Cambridge The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1997 Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Bronzetti Veneziani, Die venezianischen Kleinbronzen der Renaissance aus dem Bode-Museum Berlin The Human Touch --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/M_40_1997_2_201408_jas244_mas.jpg height: 980 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_M_40_1997_2_201408_jas244_mas.jpg height: 479 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: 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