IDENTIFIERS
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id:	29736
accession number:	M.3-1922

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29736

PEOPLE
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Handel, George Frideric
angel

SUBJECTS
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Vauxhall Gardens
lyre
London
51.486667; -0.121833
male
lyre
London
51.486667; -0.121833
male



TECHNIQUES
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terracotta hand-modelled, and fired
hand-modelling

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1738 - 1738
creation date earliest:	1738
creation date latest:	1738
culture:	18th Century, second quarter#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Roubiliac, Louis François

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 36.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 47.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 26.9



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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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
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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
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