IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76413 accession number: C.939-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, with blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearl glaze), painted in blue, turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, orange-red, pale purple, purple, maroon, buff, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The figures are supported on a straight-sided low rectangular base, which is recessed and glazed underneath and has a round ventilation hole under each figure. The top of the base is coloured pale yellow, buff and grey to resemble marble and has on the front a black outlined label inscribed 'The Assassination of MARAT./by CHARLOTTE.CORDE./of Caen, in Normandy./1793'. Charlotte stands on the viewer's right, facing to the front, holding a dagger in her right hand (blade missing), and holding out her left arm to her left. She has long grey hair, and wears a high-crowned hat with a green band and a complex bow on the front, a gold necklace, a black ribbon with gold slide on her right wrist, a green petticoat, a white dress decorated with scattered floral sprays and a purple bow at the back, a white pinafore and fichu, a gold belt, and orange-red shoes. Marat sprawls on the base to the viewer's left, supporting himself on his right arm and raising his left towards his attacker. He has grey hair (or wig), dressed in a queue,a pink jacket with turquoise collar and lining and marroon buttons, a pale mauve waistcoat scattered with purple sprigs and circles, and purple buttons, grey breeches with maroon kneebands and buttons, blue striped stockings and black shoes. Orange-red blood streams from a gash in his chest towards the base. object type: Earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in polychrome enamels and gilded. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G.Smith, Wardour Street, from whom purchased on 17 February 1904 for £12.12s. 0d. 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/76413 PEOPLE ------------------- Corday, Charlotte Marat, Jean-Paul SUBJECTS ------------------- murder murder TECHNIQUES ---------- slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1794 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1794 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lakin & Poole DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 35 dimension: Height units: cm value: 35 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Shadow of the Guillotine, Britain and the French Revolution title: French Revolution - temporary title title: The Times of our Lives: Endings title: The Times of our Lives: Rites of Passage title: Corday contre Marat CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Pots and Potters Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Collecting Staffordshire Pottery A Collector's History of English Pottery Shadow of the Guillotine, Britain and the French Revolution Madame Defarge Lives Revolution Remembered English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 British Ceramics, 11th February 1991 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_939_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 543 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_939_1928.jpg height: 700 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_939_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 543 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_939_1928.jpg height: 350 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_939_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_939_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_939_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_939_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/696/large_C_939_1928_mas.jpg height: 1236 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/696/mid_C_939_1928_mas.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.939-1928_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/696/preview_C_939_1928_mas.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/696/C_939_1928_mas.ptif height: 5263 pixels width: 4359 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/508/large_C_939_1928_dc1.jpg height: 1236 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/508/mid_C_939_1928_dc1.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/508/C_939_1928_dc1.jpg height: 4278 pixels width: 3543 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/508/preview_C_939_1928_dc1.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/508/C_939_1928_dc1.ptif height: 4278 pixels width: 3543 pixels