IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14123 accession number: M.14-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze. The naked old woman sits on a rectangular slab supported on a moulded cylindrical pedestal, with another rectangular slab below it. This is supported on an integral rectangular base with a border of indentations on the sloping edge. The woman's head is slightly inclined to her left and her arms crossed beneath her breasts. The lined face and forehead, the veined skin, visible bones, sagging breasts, and the folds of skin on the abdomen reveal a highly naturalistic approach. Her facial expression is sad and pensive. object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: With Copper & Adams, by February 1940; sold to Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958), 1940; 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 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/14123 PEOPLE ------------------- woman CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- 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) CITATIONS -------- The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1997 The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge German Sculpture 1430-1540: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Treasures of a New Bronze Age, the Smnall Bronze Age Age, Gender and the Body in the Bronze and Pearwood Statuettes of 1520s’ Germany --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_14_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 603 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_14_1997.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_14_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 603 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_14_1997.jpg height: 315 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/143/large_M_14_1997_dc1.jpg height: 1373 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/143/mid_M_14_1997_dc1.jpg height: 670 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/143/M_14_1997_dc1.jpg height: 4961 pixels width: 3701 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/143/preview_M_14_1997_dc1.jpg height: 335 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/673/111/large_M_14_1997_mas.jpg height: 1303 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/673/111/mid_M_14_1997_mas.jpg height: 636 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/673/111/M_14_1997_mas.jpg height: 5000 pixels width: 3928 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/673/111/preview_M_14_1997_mas.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels