IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150743 accession number: M.7-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, parcel-gilt, set with a tortoiseshell lid and an engraved silver portrait. Oval with straight sides and projecting moulded edges and a projecting hinge. The lid is lined with an oval portrait of Prince James, the Jacobite claimant to the throne as James III of England and VIII of Scotland, also known at 'The Old Pretender', wearing armour. Round the portrait is an applied band inscribed 'CVIVS EST' on the left, and 'COGNOSCVNT.ME.MEAE' on the right. The interior of the base is gilt. object type: oval, silver box; the underside of the tortoise shell lid set with a silver portrait of Prince James (The Old Pretender) title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Glendinning's London, 4th Nov 1992, The Collection of Jacobite and Anti-Jacobite Medals and Stuart Touchpieces, formed by Noel Woolf, p.15, lot 107. 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150743 PEOPLE ------------------- Prince James, the Jacobite claimant to the British throne CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Passe, Simon de maker: Belle, Simon Alexis DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.4 dimension: Length units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1992 The Collection of Jacobite and Anti-Jacobite Medals and Stuart Touchpieces, formed by Noel Woolf --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/m_7_1992_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 855 pixels width: 884 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/mid_m_7_1992_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 484 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/m_7_1992_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 855 pixels width: 884 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/preview_m_7_1992_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 242 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/m_7_1992_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 795 pixels width: 835 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/mid_m_7_1992_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 476 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/m_7_1992_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 795 pixels width: 835 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/preview_m_7_1992_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 238 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_7_1992_20_281_29.jpg height: 650 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_7_1992_20_281_29.jpg height: 428 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_7_1992_20_281_29.jpg height: 650 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_7_1992_20_281_29.jpg height: 214 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_1992_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 774 pixels width: 829 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_7_1992_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 467 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_1992_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 774 pixels width: 829 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_7_1992_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 233 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_1992_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 668 pixels width: 902 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_7_1992_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 370 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_1992_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 668 pixels width: 902 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_7_1992_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 185 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_7_1992_20_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_7_1992_20_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_7_1992_20_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_7_1992_20_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels