IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76283 accession number: C.881B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, salmon, dark red, purple, brown, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a shallow square base decorated with a horizontal dark red line, and the name 'Elijah' on the front. The underside has curved sides and a central ventilation hole (blocked). The prophet is seated in front of a tree on a rock with a stream of water flowing from it over a mound .He has his left leg forward and holds his hands one above the other in front of him to receive food. He looks upwards towards the viewer's right. A raven is perched in the tree above his head. He has brown hair and beard, and wears a salmon-coloured cap, a white gown decorated with floral sprigs and spots, a black belt, a white cloak with a yellow lining, and sandals with dark red straps. The rock and the mound are painted naturalistically in brown, turquoise, yellow and green, and the stream in pale grey. object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of Elijah and the Raven painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Private house sale at Wisbech; bought for £6 with its companion Widow of Zarapeth by Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchase for £8 on 24 February 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76283 PEOPLE ------------------- Elijah SUBJECTS ------------------- religion raven raven TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, salmon pink, purple, red, brown, grey, and black enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1801 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1801 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph II maker: Wood, Ralph III DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_881B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_881B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_881B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_881B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels