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Description: | Artist: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar, sculptor - Cologne 1726-1816; Date(s): circa 1775 - 1800; Classification(s): sculpture, three-quarter figure, wax, coloured green, greyish-blue, pink, dark pink, stone, brown, grey and black and gilt; Acquisition: bequeathed by Pyke, Edward Joseph, 1996, Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke [M.9-1996]
Description: Wax, coloured green, greyish-blue, pink, dark pink, stone, brown, grey and black and gilt. Three-quarter length figure of Voltaire facing to left, his hat and stick in front of him and both arms extended over a shelf or table. He holds a ring in his left hand and his right is over a jewel box on the table. To its left (viewer's left) is a back, and below his arm, a bunch of three roses, two books and further to the right a paper. Black background. In rectangular gilt wood and glass 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 Hardy, Bernhard Caspar three-quarter figure | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1775; end=1800 | 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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