IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 30382 accession number: M.47-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fruitwood, carved in the round, and with a highly polished surface. Both Hercules and the Nemean lion are facing to the left. He stands astride the lion, with his left leg forward, grasping it round the throat with both arms and forcing it backwards so that both its front paws are in the air. The narrow base is carved with foliage which rises up to support the lion's rear quarters, and is there cut off. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in 1938 by Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC (1892-1958); his sisister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Boscawen Collection creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC in his memory. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30382 PEOPLE ------------------- Hercules SUBJECTS ------------------- Nemean lion Nemean lion TECHNIQUES ---------- fruitwood, carved in the round, and with a highly polished surface carving TECHNIQUES ---------- polishing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes title: Following Hercules: The Story of Classical Art CITATIONS -------- The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/M_47_1997_1_201506_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 924 pixels 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