Head of a man
Maker: Unknown (Uncertain)
Stained and painted glass, en grisaille with details in red and silver-yellow stain. The highlights are scratched out. The head of a black man, in profile, to the left. He wears a white (colourless) headband and a yellow scarf over a red garment. His head is tilted back slightly and he looks upwards. The panel is surrounded by four narrow undecorated border panels in a rectangular suspension loop at the top.
History note: Purchased at Sotheby's, 28 November, 1927; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 17 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th century
17th Century
Circa
1500
CE
-
1700
CE
Flemish or Italian
Decoration composed of paint ( red)
silver-yellow stain Stained glass
Staining
: Stained and painted glass, en grisaille with details in red and silver-yellow stain, highlights scratched out
Grisaille
Accession number: C.346-1991
Primary reference Number: 28220
Packing number: EWA 819
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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