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Description: | Artist: Roubiliac, Louis Fran?ois, sculptor - Lyon bapt. 1702-1762 London; Date(s): before 1738; Classification(s): sculpture, figure, hand-modelling, terracotta hand-modelled, and fired; Acquisition: given by Spencer Churchill, E.G., Captain, 1922, Given by Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill [M.3-1922]
Description: Terracotta, modelled in the round. The composer is seated on a plinth, plucking the strings of a lyre. He is shown in undress, wearing a night-cap and gown, and slippers, one of which has fallen off and is under his foot. A boy 'recording angel' sits at his feet taking down the notes. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture figure Roubiliac, Louis Fran?ois | Temporal: | name=2nd quarter 18th Century; start=1738; end=1738 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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