IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31066 accession number: M.4-1975 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 8 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White marble. Venus stands with her head slightly turned to the left, her hair is dressed in Hellenic fashion, and her left knee forward. Over her left wrist is a mantle, and she holds the apple awarded by Paris. On the base, on the viewer's right, there is a tortoise. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Joseph Neeld; Captain L.W. Neeld; Mrs J. Bourne (née Celia Kathleen Mary Neeld); Christie's, 22 September, 1966, Catalogue of The Grittleton Marbles...p. 14, lot 14; sold to Perkins (600 guineas). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31066 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- apple apple TECHNIQUES ---------- white marble, carved in the round carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1833 - 1838 creation date earliest: 1833 creation date latest: 1838 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Gibson, John maker: Neeld, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 174 CITATIONS -------- The Grittleton Marbles. The Property of Mrs J. Bourne (Née Miss Celia Kathleen Mary Neeld). Formerly the Collection of the late Captain L. W. Neeld of Kelston Park and Grittleton Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975 The biography of John Gibson, R.A., sculptor, Rome The Royal Academy of Arts, A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Works from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 Christie's Sale Catalogue, 15th December 1982 Nineteenth Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 657 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 657 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 390 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 413 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 413 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 413 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_4_1975_281_29.jpg height: 460 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_4_1975_282_29.jpg height: 475 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 400 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_4_1975_283_29.jpg height: 475 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 416 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 416 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 416 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_4_1975_284_29.jpg height: 457 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 518 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_4_1975_285_29.jpg height: 734 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_4_1975_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 518 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_4_1975_285_29.jpg height: 367 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/371/large_M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1599 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/371/mid_M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 781 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.4-1975_1_201503_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/466/371/preview_M_4_1975_1_201503_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 390 pixels width: 250 pixels