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Description: | Artist: Ferrata, Ercole, sculptor - Italian sculptor, 1610-1686; Date(s): after 1660 - before 1667; Classification(s): sculpture, figure, hand-modelling, terracotta, hand modelled and tooled; Acquisition: bought by Walpole Gallery, 1988-03-14, Bought with the Cunliffe Fund, with a contribution from the Mrs Beatrice N. Stuart Bequest Fund of the National Art Collections Fund, and a grant from the Regional Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum [M.6-1988]
Description: Dark pinkish buff terracotta, hand modelled and tooled. Faith sits on a rectangular slab. She has a bare feet, a long robe and a mantle draped over her head and arms, and down to ground at the back. Her right arm, lacking the hand, is raised, and her head and gaze are turned towards it. With her left hand she holds the top of a circular portrait medallion of Cardinal Lelio Falconieri in profile to the right. It is supported from below by a putto, who turns his head away from it and leans backwards. The figures rest on an oval base with concave curved sides. The back is roughly finished with daubs of clay and finger marks. | 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 Ferrata, Ercole | Temporal: | name=third quarter of 17th century; start=1660; end=1667 | 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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