IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95764 accession number: M.1-2003 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast, supported on green figured marble base. A nude youth, wearing a visor-like mask pushed back above his face, and holding in both hands a large gaping mask of Comedy, stands on the ball of his left foot and looks down towards his bent and raised left leg. A bee has just stung the calf and he grimaces in pain to form the mask of Tragedy. The octagonal base rises up in the middle into a circular socle with a depression in the top in which the circular base of the bronze stands. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from The Fine Art Society Ltd., Bond Street, London W 1, for £60 by Derek Parsons in 1943; sold by him to G.C.Arnallt Jones on 21 December 1944; his brother-in-law Ivor Glyndwr Davies,Cardiff; his niece, Mrs Margaret Rowena Davey, née Davies (1917-2002); accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of capital taxes and allocated to The Fitzwilliam Museum from the estate of Mrs Davey. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of capital taxes and allocated to The Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95764 PEOPLE ------------------- youth SUBJECTS ------------------- comedy tragedy mask bee comedy tragedy mask bee CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1891 - 1892 creation date earliest: 1891 creation date latest: 1892 culture: 19th Century, Late culture: Victoria CREATORS -------- maker: Gilbert, Alfred DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 37 CITATIONS -------- Acceptance in Lieu Report 2003/04 The Jerwood Supplement, Recent acquisitions (1999-2004) of sculpture by British museums and galleries Alfred Gilbert, Sculptor and Goldsmith European Sculpture 2004 European Sculpture & Works of Art Victorian & Traditionalist Pictures 19th & 20th Century European Sculpture --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_1_2003.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 542 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_1_2003.jpg height: 701 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_1_2003.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 542 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_1_2003.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/750/large_M_1_2003_mas.jpg height: 1435 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/750/mid_M_1_2003_mas.jpg height: 701 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.1-2003_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/750/preview_M_1_2003_mas.jpg height: 350 pixels width: 250 pixels