1592999673000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76288 1752602734645 1714469840000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76288 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76288 93de049b-d948-346d-b7d5-a75509f9108f 8 person reference agent-183369 adlib-agent-183369 5a60bd00-8221-3b88-a946-1a898435ccd0 Newton, Isaac reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-42858 adlib-term-42858 28dd1a37-f2da-31c5-a8b7-684957070a75 pearlware reference term-147317 adlib-term-147317 27f67278-c263-3df1-942a-60f5abba7d49 enamel painted figures reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher greyish-blue, pale green, yellow, flesh pink, lilac, salmon-pink, red, pale and dark brown, grey and black enamels reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration in blue, pale green, yellow, flesh pink, lilac, salmon-pink, red, pale and dark brown, grey and black enamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Surface slightly tinted pale blue reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing Depth cm 10 Width cm 12.5 Base reference term-23821 adlib-term-23821 dd4eb91c-a1a3-37f2-bc09-bb858929ea9d astronomy Applied Arts lead-glazed earthenware figure of Sir Isaac Newton standing beside a pile of books and a globe, painted in polychrome enamels Pale cream earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-blue, pale green, yellow, flesh pink, lilac, salmon-pink, red, pale and dark brown, grey 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 large ventilation hole to right of centre, and another 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 celestial 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, and wears a white waistcoat with red and black floral sprigs and black spots, lilac borders and buttons, a long white morning gown with greyish-blue fur lining, salmon-pink breeches with red buttons and ties at the knees, white stockings, and black shoes. The telescope and the lining of the cloth over the globe are lilac. The ecliptic, the other markings on the globe, and the degrees around it are in black, and its stand is dark brown. The lowest book is pale green and lilac with a black binding; the next has a brown binding and yellow edges, and the uppermost is pale green and lilac. C.885-1928 1 accession number C.885-1928 76288 priref 76288 Glaisher MS Catalogue old object number 4524 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76288 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76288 rectangular white paper stick-on label on inside of base at front printed and hand-written in black C5479/£7/0/- hand-written, FENTON & SONS,/11, New Oxford St.,/London. printed label rectangular white paper label with cut corners at the top and dark blue line round all but the lower edge; r of Novr is raised on inside of base at the back hand-written in black ink 4524/statuette of/Sir Isaac Newton/by Ralph Wood/Given to me by/Col. & Mrs Dickson/Novr.2.1918 label semi-circular white stick-on label on viewer's left inside wall of base hand-written in black ink 12 in/30.5 cm. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed the Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher's death 1790 1790 1790 circa 1790 1795 1 1795 1795 1795 probably production reference agent-207116 adlib-agent-207116 b041552d-9b8d-30c3-a6b6-3b4279350c08 Wood, Ralph II The extremely bright Great Comet of 1680 was discovered on 14 November by a German astronomer, Gottfried Kirch, in Coburg. It was the first comet to be identified using a telescope. Isaac Newton in 'Principia' (1687), applied his theory of gravitation to show that the 1680 comet moved in an elliptical, almost parabolic orbit round the sun. In England it became known as 'Newton's Comet', although John Flamstead's observations of the comet had played a significant part in enabling Newton to reach his conclusions. This figure is attributed to Ralph Wood II's factory in Burslem on the basis of examples marked 'Ra. Wood/Burslem' and with the model number '137'. It might also have been made after his death in 1795 when his son, Ralph Wood III, took over the factory and ran it until his death in 1801. The figure of Newton was a companion to a figure of Chaucer (see C. 883-1928). reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-108171 adlib-term-108171 c943fe08-bd72-32ab-823c-e1eeb56717b3 literal England England country Burslem reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 30.7 Width cm 15 reference media-47344 adlib-media-47344 2ceece26-f779-3249-b07f-fb49d9953e40 jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583590252 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_885_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583590252 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583590252 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_885_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583590252 1 image 0 media image reference media-47345 adlib-media-47345 185a0e88-2f7a-3b0e-9630-43dbc70d649c jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583607963 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_885_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583607963 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583607963 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_885_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583607963 1 image 1 media image reference media-47346 adlib-media-47346 d46c587e-9d75-31e9-97ba-047563537f2d jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583610451 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_885_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583610451 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583610451 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_885_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583610451 1 image 2 media image reference media-47347 adlib-media-47347 95af5c6d-895f-313e-af80-4207ef446039 jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583576219 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_885_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583576219 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_885_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583576219 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_885_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583576219 1 image 3 media image reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure history note Given by Colonel and Mrs W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth on 2 November 1918 to Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, for his birthday on 5 November 1 same subject reference object-76287 adlib-object-76287 b135ec54-128f-3f10-a6af-eb8045eabee1

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figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 117, no. 885 117 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge reference publication-6364 adlib-publication-6364 fe1f86b0-bf04-37e1-b2c4-ab59b763b611 The Wood Family of Burslem Cf. Black and white illustration of an example impressed 'Ra Wood Burslem' and '137', and with top of telescope intact, in the Willett Collection at the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton (no.970). 140 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. p. 206, no. 970, colour pl. of an example impressed 'Ra Wood' and '137', and with top of telescope intact, in the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton. This is the figure illustrated in black and white by Halfpenny, 1991. 206 reference publication-8448 adlib-publication-8448 4ef2e26f-cb4d-3b92-9c93-840dff116ed8 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain Cf. p. 220, no. 934, and p. 222, colour pl., a comparable figure of Newton with an apple beside his left foot on the white base, marked LEEDS POTTERY, and dated to c. 1780s or 1790s. The Fitzwilliam's two examples are mentioned. 220, 222 reference publication-1037 adlib-publication-1037 422968c6-2a4f-374e-9ab7-3efacf524c4a Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds reference term-23821 adlib-term-23821 dd4eb91c-a1a3-37f2-bc09-bb858929ea9d astronomy object name reference term-106352 adlib-term-106352 817f8d60-0e1f-39a6-b19b-304ef98a26af comet object name reference term-125844 adlib-term-125844 207699ef-1017-3615-983c-763d88016078 telescope object name reference term-101745 adlib-term-101745 5530e465-dcb0-3865-a041-2091a264d547 celestial globe object name reference term-102154 adlib-term-102154 153b3801-39e3-3b0d-9db7-da6c97b65a46 book literal comet comet literal telescope telescope literal celestial globe celestial globe literal book book

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