IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29736 accession number: M.3-1922 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Terracotta, modelled in the round. The composer is seated on a plinth, plucking the strings of a lyre. He is shown in undress, wearing a night-cap and gown, and slippers, one of which has fallen off and is under his foot. A boy 'recording angel' sits at his feet taking down the notes. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Hudson by 1751); sold in his sale, 26th February 1785, lot 37; purchased by Nathaniel Smith and sold by him to his ma;ster, Joseph Nollekens; sold in his sale, 3rd July, 1823, lot 60 (as by Carlini); purchased by 'Hamlet, the silversmith', presumably Thomas Hamlet; probably purchased for Northwick Park at Hamlet's sale held by Robins, 29th July, 1833 (only recorded copy of the sale cat. derives from the Northwick Park Library); Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill (1876-1964), Northwick, by whom given to the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29736 PEOPLE ------------------- Handel, George Frideric angel SUBJECTS ------------------- Vauxhall Gardens lyre London 51.486667; -0.121833 male lyre London 51.486667; -0.121833 male TECHNIQUES ---------- terracotta hand-modelled, and fired hand-modelling CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1738 - 1738 creation date earliest: 1738 creation date latest: 1738 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Roubiliac, Louis François DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 47.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Handel and the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England title: Handel, A Celebration of his Life and Times 1685-1759 title: Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish title: Opera: Passion, Power and Politics CITATIONS -------- The Life and Works of François Roubiliac Handel at Vauxhall Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England Handel, A Celebration of his Life and Times 1685-1759 I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Roubiliac's Statue of Handel and the Keeping of Order in Vauxhall Gardens in the Early Eighteenth Century Tyers, Roubiliac and a sculpture's fame: a poem about the commissioning of the Handel statue at Vauxhall British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum Roubiliac's Handel for Vauxhall Gardens; a sculpture in context Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish Opera: Passion Power and Politics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/M_3_1922_1_201512_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: 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