IDENTIFIERS
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id:	30478
accession number:	M.8-1996

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 21 March 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Three-quarter length figure of a peasant woman nursing a baby - Peasant woman and child. Wax, coloured flesh pink, red, pale greyish-green, dark greyish-green and pale brown. A woman is seated on a red cushion, holding a baby in her arms as if to suckle it, and leaning over it slightly, with her head in profile. She wears a pale greyish-green headscarf and a low-necked dark greyish-green dress with widely spaced white stripes. Her chemise shows at the neck and below the sleeve ends. The model rests on a D-shaped base covered in dark green ribbed silk and the background is buff ribbed silk. In gilt-metal rococo scrolled frame with three scroll feet, glass half dome, and hinged door at the back.
A pair with M.7-1996.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 31st July 1958, lot 135


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: Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30478

PEOPLE
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peasant
child




CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar


CITATIONS
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The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1996
Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers
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