IDENTIFIERS
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id:	30966
accession number:	M.65-1937

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bust. White marble. The sitter is turned to the front, facing and looking a little left. He is bare-headed with his hair curling and lying low on the nape of the neck. He is clean shaven, he has a bare throat, and his shoulders and bust are covered by drapery.
title:	bust

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Collection of the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber Park. Sold in the Earl of Lincoln's Sale, Christie's catalogue, 19th October 1937, lot 344.


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 the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30966

PEOPLE
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Pitt, William

SUBJECTS
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male
male



TECHNIQUES
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white marble
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1778
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1778
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Wilton, Joseph


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation"
CITATIONS
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Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Twenty-ninth Annual Report, for the Year 1937
Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation''
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851
Important European Sculpture and Works of Art, 5th December 1989
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