These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Venus holding a Dove
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels
White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted glaze, and painted in blue, green, dark yellow, flesh, pink, puce, red, redish-brown, brown, and black enamels. Venus stands on a low circular mound on a square straight-sided base which has a chamfered inner edge, and flat underside with a central ventilation hole. She is barefooted and stands on her left foot with her right a little behind it and her right knee relaxed. Her head turned slightly to her right, and holds a brown and white dove on her right hand level with her chest. Her left arm hangs by her side, and with the hand she holds up her tunic to reveal her lower leg. Her brown hair is swept up on top of her head behind a small yellow frontlet with red and blue 'jewels', and two long tresses hang down over her shoulders. Her face is lightly tanned and she has red lips and black irises. She wears a white dress decorated with blue spots, and dark yellow and puce floral sprays, and has green borders round the right armhole, neckline, left sleeve, and lower edge. A pink sash encircles her waist and is tied at centre front. The mound is coloured green and brown and there is a reddish-brown line running round the side of the base.
History note: Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchased for £2 and a similar but less attractive figure which had cost £1, on 6 November 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 26.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1820
Another version of this model is C.890-1928
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, dark yellow, flesh, pink, puce, reddish-brown, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly tinted blue)
Base
Depth 8.8 cm
Width 9 cm
white Earthenware
Press-moulded : White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, dark yellow, flesh, pink, puce, reddish-brown, brown, and black enamels
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with cut corners
Accession number: C.889-1928
Primary reference Number: 76292
Old object number: 4113
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Venus holding a Dove" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76292 Accessed: 2024-12-23 00:13:03
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76292
|title=Venus holding a Dove
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-23 00:13:03|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-76292
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_889_1928_281_29.jpg"
alt="Venus holding a Dove"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Venus holding a Dove</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
