IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76287 accession number: C.884-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, dull pink, purplish-puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a deep-sided almost square base decorated to resemble black and grey marble. It is hollow underneath and has a ventilation hole to right of centre, and a smaller hole in the side of the back wall. Newton stands beside a pile of three books which supports a celestial globe partially covered by a cloth. His weight is on his left leg and his right knee is relaxed so that the foot is behind him. His head is turned to his right. In his left hand he supports a telescope whose lower end rests on the globe, and in his right he holds up the cloth which covers the globe. A piece of paper with a comet in relief, and the date '1680' impressed and painted in black protrudes from the uppermost book. Newton has short brown hair, rosy cheeks, and red lips. He wears a white waistcoat with purplish-puce sprigs, and blue borders, a long purplish-puce morning gown lined with white fabric with blue and red spots, pale yellow breeches, white stockings and green shoes. His telescope is marbled in yellow, and brown. The ecliptic, the other markings on the globe, and the degrees around it are in dark brown, and its stand is paler brown. The cloth over it is dull pink. One of the books has a brown cover and green text block; the next is covered in black, and the third is green with a purple text block. object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of Sir Isaac Newton standing beside a pile of books and a globe, painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s, 9 July 1907, part of lot 47 with a figure of Chaucer; bought by Mr V.B. Button for £12 10s. on behalf of 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/76287 PEOPLE ------------------- Newton, Isaac SUBJECTS ------------------- astronomy telescope celestial globe book telescope celestial globe book TECHNIQUES ---------- pale cream earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, mauve, purplish-puce, red, brown, and black enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph II maker: Wood, Ralph III DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The European Fame of Sir Isaac Newton CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain Fine British Ceramics Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_884_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_884_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_884_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_884_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_884_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_884_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_884_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_884_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels