IDENTIFIERS
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id:	31014
accession number:	M.19-1947

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 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
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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
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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 Lord Fairhaven

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31014

PEOPLE
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Savile, George

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:	1784 - 1823
creation date earliest:	1784
creation date latest:	1823
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Nollekens, Joseph


CITATIONS
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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
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