IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31014 accession number: M.19-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bust. White marble. The sitter is turned to the front, facing and looking a quarter to the right, the head inclined slightly forward. He is bare-headed. His hair is taken back from the forehead and falls in thick curls behind. He is clean-shaven. His throat is bare; his shoulders and bust are covered by drapery. title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: Earls of Mexborough (presumably acquired by John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough (1761-1830) who succeeded his father in 1778) bought by Messrs Leonard Partridge, London, 1945; bought by the first Lord Fairhaven by whom given to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Lord Fairhaven STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31014 PEOPLE ------------------- Savile, George SUBJECTS ------------------- male male TECHNIQUES ---------- white marble carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1784 - 1823 creation date earliest: 1784 creation date latest: 1823 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Nollekens, Joseph CITATIONS -------- Nollekens and His Times Sculpture in England, Renaissance to Early XIX Century Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University Collection Daniel Katz Ltd 1968-1993, A Catalogue Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Dealing in European Sculpture and Works of Art Sophie in London 1786 Important European Sculpture and Works of Art, 6th December 1988 British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum ---