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Description: | Artist: Percy, Samuel, wax modeller - Irish wax modeler, 1750-1820; Date(s): 1818; Classification(s): sculpture, half-length portrait, coloured wax, wax, coloured dark green, flesh pink, pale red, brown, and black, in gilt wooden frame; Acquisition: bequeathed by Pyke, Edward Joseph, 1996, Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke [M.11-1996]
Description: Half-length portrait of Sir Francis Burdett Bt. (1770-1844). Wax, coloured dark green, flesh pink, pale red, brown, and black. The sitter faces front, wearing a high collar, stock with front bow, black waistcoat and jacket. At the top there is a looped up curtain, which descends on the right side and passes across the figure to the left lower corner. In rectangular gilt frame with acanthus leaves in the corners set in a gilt wooden frame. | 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 Percy, Samuel half-length portrait | Temporal: | name=early 19th Century; start=1818; end=1818 | 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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