1592970264000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-30478 1747160088254 1711357594000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-30478 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30478 b574910c-0682-395b-aae1-f56085829827 6 person reference agent-150301 adlib-agent-150301 8df5f543-e69f-3025-be1b-85a5195b60cf peasant person reference agent-149749 adlib-agent-149749 a26143f2-6dbe-3ee8-9e2d-863b9c1fa1f9 child reference term-98228 adlib-term-98228 3d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5c sculpture coloured reference term-31364 adlib-term-31364 0ae1aab3-446d-3aea-9a7c-b614e85bc4c2 wax Figure reference term-107470 adlib-term-107470 f6217ee1-61ca-3c57-92a1-dd13e97bc77c gilt-metal reference term-91170 adlib-term-91170 d49ca0b4-ccae-3039-afe0-882c186cff25 glass Height cm 26.7 Width cm 20.2 Frame reference term-98112 adlib-term-98112 32d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139 portrait Applied Arts 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. M.8-1996 1 accession number M.8-1996 30478 priref 30478 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30478 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30478 extract from a sale catalogue stuck to the back printed in black 135 A GOOD PAIR OF WAX HALF-LENGTH FIGURES by Bernhard Caspar Hardy, both modelled in almost full relief, one of the 'Vegetable Woman', who wears a yellow hat and holds in her blue apron cabbages and other vegetables, the other of a 'Peasant Woman and Child'. the woman wearing a turquoise scarf on her head and bottle-green dress, supporting the naturalistically modelled baby in her arms, both set against lime green cloth backgrounds and contained in ormolu cases with domed glass fronts, 10 1/2 in Bernhard Caspar Hardy (1726-1819), was perhaps the most notable of all 18th Century wax modellers on the Continent. G. Bernhard Hughes illustrates another example of the 'Vegetable Woman' in 'An Artist in Wax', Country Life, October 12th, 1951. For other examples of Hardy's work see also D.R. Riley, Portrait Waxes, plates 15 and 16. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke reference agent-156636 adlib-agent-156636 dcd4e9ad-c357-3ba9-acb9-78766d40c799 Pyke, Edward Joseph 1996 1996 1996 bequeathed Edward Joseph Pyke was born in London, 22nd April 1898, son of Leslie Pyke and Mildred (née Lucas) of 10 Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London. Matriculated Magdalene College 1919; BA 1922; MA 1925. He died on 3rd January 1996. Further details in Bequest file. 1775 1775 CE 1775 circa 1775 1800 1 1800 CE 1800 1800 sculptor reference agent-156647 adlib-agent-156647 f195fb9b-cfb6-30d0-99d7-08f8c2617f5a Hardy, Bernhard Caspar reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-106328 adlib-term-106328 690a261d-5ce6-3d9d-a534-61dece87a27c literal Germany Germany country Cologne reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure history note Sotheby's, 31st July 1958, lot 135 1 reference object-30470 adlib-object-30470 f433106b-1b54-3ae3-aa32-e9cb3b96e4d7

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figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. text, p. 13, illustrated, p. 16 pp. 13, 16 reference publication-1113 adlib-publication-1113 cf51c25e-d2d8-39c4-822c-5544177d6443 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1996 Ref. For Hardy, see pp. 63-5 pp. 63-5 reference publication-2433 adlib-publication-2433 3da6b7c3-a5fc-3d2b-bccc-34cca56fbfca Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers

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