IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 28227 accession number: C.348-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Nailing of Christ to the Cross. Stained and painted glass in grisaille and two shades of silver-yellow stain. Christ's body is arched over the T-shaped cross which lies on the ground. On the left a soldier wearing a turban stands with his left arm raised holding aloft a club and with his right hand grasps a rope attached to a collar around Christ's neck. On the right, another holds up his right arm and grasps with his right a chain attached to the collar. Christ's robe, a hammer and two nails lie in the foreground and on the left there is a rope in a basket. In the background the action is watched by the Virgin Mary and St. John, who stand on a hill with trees on the extreme right and left. In a rectangular lead with a wire for suspension at the top. title: panel (stained glass) NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28227 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ Virgin Mary St John soldier SUBJECTS ------------------- cross nails hammer rope basket trees The Nailing of Christ to the Cross hill cross nails hammer rope basket trees The Nailing of Christ to the Cross hill TECHNIQUES ---------- stained and painted glass in grisaille and two shades of silver-yellow stain staining TECHNIQUES ---------- grisaille CATEGORIES ------ category: stained glass category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1600 CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.5