IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31419 accession number: M.7-1910 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Alabaster, carved in relief. Rectangular. A boy with his back to the viewer stands on a ledge at the bottom of an arched frame with a scallop shell projecting downwards from the top. His right leg is in front of his left, and both knees are bent. His arms are raised, and he leans against the right side of the frame on his right upper arm, while supporting the bottom of the shell with his left hand. title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Charles Waldstein (later Sir Charles Walston MA, Litt.D and Lady Walston). From a tomb formerly in the church of San Pedro at Ocana, Spain (?) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dr and Mrs Charles Waldstein (later Sir Charles and Lady Walston) in memory of Mrs D. L. Einstein, through the Friends of the Fitzwilliam. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31419 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- shell shell TECHNIQUES ---------- alabaster, carved carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1499 - 1505 creation date earliest: 1499 creation date latest: 1505 culture: 15th Century, Late-16th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 65.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 29 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Second Annual Report Spanish Sculpture, Catalogue of the Post-Medieval Spanish Sculpture in Wood, Terracotta, Alabaster, Marble, Stone, Lead and Jet in the Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Sculpture (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America Dos Estatuas de la Familia Cardenas de Ocaña ---