Memorial to Thomas and John Fitzwilliam: 465

Current Location: Gallery 31 (Armoury)

Titles

Memorial to Thomas and John Fitzwilliam

Maker(s)

Entities

Painting

Notes

History note: Viscounts Montague at Cowdray House, Sussex, until after 1793, when it passed at a date unknown to Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, founder of the Fitzwilliam Musuem

Measurements and weight

Height: 84.4 cm
Width: 114.9 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1730

Note

Identified as the copy.

School or Style

British

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Oil

Components of the work

Support composed of canvas

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on canvas

Inscription or legends present

Text: .THOMAS FFITZ./WILLYAM (see catalogue for accurate transcription)
Location: At left

Text: Ihoan, FFITZ,/WILLIAM (see catalogue for accurate transcription)
Location: At right

Text: IN DOYING THEIR DUETIES AGAINST THE SCOTS / AT FLODDON FIELD UPON FRIDAY 9th SEPTEMr. 1513 (see catalogue for accurate transcription)
Location: On base, on the panel

References and bibliographic entries

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 100, 102
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School page(s): 37-38

Identification numbers

Accession number: 465
Primary reference Number: 805
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 27 November 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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