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Description: | Artist: Heckel, Christopher, caster - fl. 1740s to late 1770s; Date(s): circa 1740 - 1760; Classification(s): sculpture, cast (sculpture), casting (process), plaster, cast, with traces of gilding; Acquisition: bought by Gilman, Michael, 1981, Bought with the Jones Fund [M.8-1981]
Description: Plaster cast probably taken of a box lid or plaque. Oval. In the middle an oval cartouche flanked by figures. On the right, a standing figure of Hercules; on the left a seated figure of Justice with Minerva? standing behind her, looking upwards to a seated putto blowing a trumpet, representing Fame, flanked by a lyre, a palette, brushes, and a globe, enclosed by three scrolls. Below the cartouche there is a military trophy, flanked by foliage. | 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 Heckel, Christopher cast (sculpture) | Temporal: | name=mid 18th Century; start=1740; end=1760 | 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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