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Wooden mould with gilded gingerbread gentlewoman

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On loan to The Fitzwilliam Museum from a private collection, with a pressing by Ivan Day, for our exhibition Feast & Fast: the Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800

Food historian, Ivan Day, shared this recipe for gingerbread from c. 1395. It is one of the earliest known recipes from England.

Take good honey and clarify it on the fire. Mix in some breadcrumbs and boil the honey, stirring well. Once boiled, take off the heat to cool, and mix in powdered ginger, long pepper and red saunders to colour. Temper it and flatten it, and then decorate with cloves.

The recipe is transcribed by Constance Hieatt in her book Curye on Inglysch (1985).

Look at the work

Look at how small and detailed the biscuit is!

What do you think the shiny material is that's covering her?

Think about this work

How many of these could you eat?

Imagine what special event this gingerbread woman was made for.

Have you ever eaten a sweet snack decorated with gold foil?

Do something in response

Make your own gingerbread people following these steps. You can you use a biscuit cutter or a stencil.

You could decorate them with historic clothing or try out one of our medieval recipes!

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Look, think, do: Wooden mould with gilded gingerbread gentlewoman

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Home Learning Look Think Do Wooden Mould Description of this object or artwork On loan to The Fitzwilliam Museum from a private collection, with a pressing by Ivan Day, for our exhibition Feast & Fast: the Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 Food historian, Ivan Day, shared this recipe for gingerbread from c.

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Look and Think activities should take 5 -10 minutes.

Do activities might take longer depending on the task and how creative you are feeling!

La Maison de la Piette, Montfoucault, effet de neige (Translated as: Piette's house at Montfoucault: snow effect)

Camille Pissarro, oil on canvas Height: 60 cm, Width: 73.5 cm, PD.10-1966

Look

What colours can you see in this scene?

Compare this painting with another snowy landscape by the same artist.

Is snow always white?

Think

Imagine you are an artist painting a snowy scene.

What equipment would you need? What clothes would you wear? What colours would you need?

Do

Pissarro painted this picture quickly outside on a cold day.

Find your favourite place outside, and a stick to draw with. Can you trace what you can see on the ground in front of you?

If the ground is hard, collect things to lay on top to make your picture.

Camille Pissarro was born in St Thomas in the West Indies but later lived and worked mainly in Paris. He was an Impressionist painter and mainly painted landscapes outside 'en plein air'. He was influenced by French artists Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796- 1875) who also painted outdoor scenes. In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen artists, now known as the impressionists. He became the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warm-hearted personality".

This painting was made at his friend the artist Ludovic Piette-Montfoucault's (1826-1878) house. Pissarro first visited in the 1860s, but decided to use it as the focus for a series of paintings ten years later. In total he painted eighteen paintings in this area, five of which were in the snow. Shortly before leaving for Montfoucault, Pissarro wrote to his friend about his pleasure in anticipating travelling to a region where he would find, 'the true countryside'.

If you would like to learn more about the Impressionist artists and other artworks we have in our collection, we have this online exhibition for you.

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Piette's House at Montfoucault - Schools at the Fitz

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Look and Think activities should take 5 -10 minutes. Do activities might take longer depending on the task and how creative you are feeling! La Maison de la Piette, Montfoucault, effet de neige (Translated as: Piette's house at Montfoucault: snow effect) Camille Pissarro, oil on canvas Height: 60 cm, Width: 73.5 cm, PD.10-1966 What colours can you see in this scene?

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Egypt and Syria were united in the fourteenth century under Mamluk rule from Cairo, where many religious buildings were erected by the sultans and their officials. The mosques and mausoleums were lit by oil lamps in glass holders, which were suspended from ceilings by chains looped through the protruding 'lugs' on the sides. Mosque lamps of this shape decorated with coloured enamels (coloured glass paint), had become standard by the late 1200s. This spectacular mosque lamp is the finest piece of Middle Eastern glass in the Museum's collection.

The Arabic inscription on the lower part of this example states that it was made by order of Shayku al-Nāsirī (d.1357), who built a mosque, monastery and tomb in Cairo between 1349 and 1356. On the neck, the inscription is broken by his emblem, a red cup, indicating that he was cup-bearer to the Sultan. In addition to their practical and decorative functions, mosque lamps had a symbolic role. Like a number of others, this one bears a passage from the Qu'ran, XXIV.35, known as the Sura (chapter) of Light it reads:

'God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as a niche, in which there is a lamp'.

Given by the National Art Collections Fund in commemoration of the centenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum's opening in 1848

Clear bubbly glass with a brownish tinge, free blown, with applied lugs, enamelled in blue, red, white and black. Depressed globular body with six clear lugs for suspension on the sloping shoulder, flaring neck, and low circular foot. Decorated on the upper part of the neck in nashki script with a passage from the Qur'an, Sura XXIV, 35, the Sura of Light, broken by three circular medallions containing a red cup. Around the lower part of the neck is a band of red scrolling foliage brokenby upright plant motifs. The shoulders are decorated in larger script reserved in foliage outlined in red in a blue ground: 'By the order of the most noble authority, the Exhalted, the Lordly, the Masterful, holder of the sword, Shaykhu al-Nasiri'. The lower part of the body is decorated with three medallions containing cups alternating with three medallions containing blue foliage. The spaces between are occupied by flowers.

Linant Pasha; purchased from him by Rostowitz Bey, Cairo, by whom given to John M. Cook; inherited by his son, Frank H. Cook; inherited by his wife, Mrs Frank H. Cook

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Given by the National Art Collections Fund to commemorate the Centenary of the opening of the Fitzwilliam.

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Method of acquisition: Given

Dates: 1949-12

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Mid 14th Century

Production date: circa AD 1355 : The inscription indicates that it was made to the order of the Emir Shaykhu, probably for the mosque or mausoleum he built in Cairo between 1349 and 1356. He was assassinated in 1357.

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Inscription present: in nashki script

Text: inscription from the Qur'an, Sura XXIV, 35

Location: Around neck

Method of creation: Painted in enamels

Type: Inscription

Inscription present: in nashki script

Text: arabic inscription: By the order of the most noble authority, the Exhalted, the Lordly, the Masterful, holder of the sword, Shaykhu al-Nasiri

Location: Around the body

Method of creation: Painted in enamels

Type: Inscription

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Egypt and Syria were united in the fourteenth century under Mamluk rule from Cairo, where many religious buildings were erected by the sultans and their officials. The mosques and mausoleums were lit by oil lamps in glass holders, which were suspended from ceilings by chains looped through the protruding 'lugs' on the sides.

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This activity is based on 'The Nativity' by Domenico Ghirlandaio at The Fitzwilliam Museum and is a Look Think Do activity https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/work/nativity

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Ch. A. Coypel, sold Paris, Mariette, 27 March 1753 (49)

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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed

Dates: 1912

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Text: I. FOCQVIER. F.

Location: Lower right

Type: Signature

Text: 1617

Location: Lower right

Type: Date

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Image: Poet Travelling in the Snow by Katsushika Hokusai,

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Poet travelling in the snow

Shiika shashinkyô

For the series of ten upright (naga-Ôban) landscape views Shiika shashinkyô (A Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse), signed zen Hokusai Iitsu hiitsu. Published by Moriya Jihei, censor's seal: kiwame

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Constellation Chart

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This book, Astronomicum Caesareum (the Emperor's Astronomy), was published in 1540. It is written and designed by Peter Apian, a professor in astronomy and mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt. While many other books were used by students at European universities, this book was aimed at people who were not experts but wanted to know more about the how the sun and moon, planets and stars moved around the fixed earth (which is what people believed then).

It is a very large book with over 30 movable wheel charts, sometimes also known as volvelles or Apian Wheels. By turning the different paper dials on the page, the reader can calculate the exact position (the latitude and longitude) of the different planets in the sky. There are also volvelles for calculating the date of Easter as well as critical days of an illness. The pages were printed with ink and the colour was added by hand, so almost every copy is unique.

This illustration is borrowed from two prints produced by Albrecht Dürer in 1515. They were the celestial maps to be printed. He produced one depicting the southern and one the northern hemisphere. In this star map, Peter Apian has combined the two. So, when you look at it you may not recognise all the constellations, as some of them are not visible here in England.

Have a look at some of the other pages from a copy kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Look at the work

Look carefully at this picture.

Part of the page can move - can you see where? How could you make it move?

Find out how in our Do activity.

Think about this work

This book is all about space.

This picture is a map of the stars in the sky.

Stars that are grouped together are called constellations. The animal shapes help people remember where the stars are.

If you could make your own constellation, what animal would it be?

How many stars would you put inside?

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Home Learning Look Think Do Constellation Chart Description of this object or artwork This book, Astronomicum Caesareum (the Emperor's Astronomy), was published in 1540. It is written and designed by Peter Apian, a professor in astronomy and mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt.

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Do-It- Yourself Christmas Story with Artworks from the collection

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Do-It- Yourself Christmas Story with Artworks from the collection

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Designed especially for little ones using Japanese prints from our collection

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Draw a simple design onto polystyrene packaging using a blunt pencil.
Apply a layer of printing ink or poster paint, and press down onto your card to make a beautiful print.

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Cut star shaped stencils or templates from old cardboard.
Arrange on a large piece of paper. Children can apply paint with a sponge or roller to create home-made wrapping paper.

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Snowy landscape at Eragny with an apple tree

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The Very Rev. E. Milner-White, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.D., Dean of York

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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed

Dates: 1963

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Text: C. Pissarro

Location: Lower right

Type: Signature

Text: 95

Location: Lower right

Type: Date

Text: P. CONTET (merchant, Paris)

Location: Verso, on canvas

Type: Stamp

Text: Effet de neige

Location: Verso, stretcher

Method of creation: Graphite

Type: Title

Text: Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd.

Location: Verso, frame

Method of creation: Printed label

Type: Label

Text: A2660 'Effet de neige a Eragny, / avec un pommier', 1895, by C. Pissarro

Location: Verso, frame

Method of creation: Typed label

Type: Label

Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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Accession number: PD.974-1963

Primary reference Number: 2864

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Rolling a snow ball

Yuki-korogashi

Colour print from woodblocks. Aiban format, c.1840, signed Goch¬ôtei Sadashige ga (Kuniteru's earlier artist's name), published by Fujiokaya Hikotarô (seal: Fuji-Hiko).

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Given by Matthew Rutenberg and Anne V. Lauder through Cambridge in America

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The kabuki actor Bandô Mitsugorô III

Surimono. Colour prints from woodblocks, with blind embossing (karazuri), and white pigment spattered by hand for the snow. Shikishi-ban diptych, left-hand sheet (mounted with P.526-1937, the right-hand sheet). Signed: Kuniyasu ga. Printer's seal: Suri-kô Shinzô. Poets: Kôutei (?) Hanamitsu, Suihôtei Komatsu, Kamenoya Osemaru and Hisakataya Misora. 1826.

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Fan Design: Garden Under Snow

Design for a fan, based on a painting entitled 'Winter landscape' of 1879 now in the Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest.

Dr Edvard Brandes, by descent to ? from whom bought by Pickvance

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Given by Ronald Pickvance (Christ's 1950) in memory of his wife Gina (1932-1997)

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Text: P.Gauguin

Location: Centre left

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Poet travelling in the snow

Shiika shashinkyô

For the series of ten upright (naga-Ôban) landscape views Shiika shashinkyô (A Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse), signed zen Hokusai Iitsu hiitsu. Published by Moriya Jihei, censor's seal: kiwame

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Home Objects and Artworks Object P.14-1997 Titles Poet travelling in the snow Shiika shashinkyô For the series of ten upright (naga-Ôban) landscape views Shiika shashinkyô (A Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Verse), signed zen Hokusai Iitsu hiitsu.

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Cecilia Glaisher

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SNOW CRYSTALS
INTRODUCTION

At the same time as making her photogenic drawings of ferns, Cecilia Glaisher was working with her husband, James Glaisher, superintendent of the Meteorological and Magnetic Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on a study of snow crystals.

Their observations, made through lenses of different power, resulted in an important scientific paper, 'On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-crystals'. It was read by James Glaisher at the Fifth Annual General Meeting of the British Meteorological Society on May 22nd, 1855, and was subsequently published by the Society in their 5th Annual Report.

The paper was illustrated by 151 reproductions of precise schematic drawings of snow crystal forms which, Glaisher wrote, 'were executed by Mrs Glaisher from rough sketches of my own.' These illustrations have been described as 'the most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography.'

Falling snow usually consists of snow crystals clumped together into flakes. Although individual crystals may fall at the same time as snowflakes, they can also fall on their own, as a rain of very fine crystals.

While their work began as observations for scientific purposes, the underlying geometric structure the Glaishers saw in snow crystals led to a second paper, 'On the Crystals of Snow as Applied to the Purposes of Design', published in The Art Journal in March and April 1857. This paper was reprinted fifteen years later as one of four essays in Art-Studies From Nature, As Applied to Design: for the use of Architects, Designers, and Manufacturers (1872).

The Museum's holding consists of preparatory material for these papers, and includes early annotated sketches, schematic drawings, photographic copies, printed-paper proofs, and coloured artwork for designs.

'On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-crystals' by James Glaisher in British Meteorological Society 5th Annual Report (British Meteorological Society, 1855, p. 17).

'For instance, the sketches by Doi are very nearly equal in quality to the illustrations of snow crystals by the English meteorologist James Glaisher, published in 1855 (in other words 23 years later than the Sekka Zusetsu), which are considered to be the most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography.' Snow Crystals, Natural and Artificial by Ukichiro Nakaya (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1954, pp 2-3).

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At the same time as making her photogenic drawings of ferns, Cecilia Glaisher was working with her husband, James Glaisher, superintendent of the Meteorological and Magnetic Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on a study of snow crystals.

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He perhaps bought it from Messrs Colnaghi, London

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Formerly attributed to Mainardi, Sebastiano, reattrib. E. Fahy, 1998

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The Adoration of the Kings

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Possibly Jan de Beer

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The Adoration of the Shepherds

Louis-Philippe; Louis-Philippe sale, Christie's, 6 May 1853 (27), bt. Haines

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Text: GLO[RI]A IN EXCELSIS DEO ET IN TE[RR]A PAX

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Text: Ls TRISTA.F.

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Paysanne française

(French peasantwoman)

Terracotta, in the round. The mother has bared her left breast and the child is feeding. She wears a coif on her head, a frilled bodice, long skirt mainly covered by an apron, and clogs. She is sitting on an upturned wickerwork basket.

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Bequeathed by Sir Sidney Colvin, through the National Art Collections Fund

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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed

Dates: 1927

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This terracotta is a reduced-size version of the original 'Paysanne Française' shown at the Royal Academy in 1873, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Two more large versions are known, one also in the Victoria and Albert, and the other in the Hermitage, St Petersburg. The Fitzwilliam's is one of several reduced-size terracottas. It was accessioned as 'Maternity', but the work was known in the 19th century as 'Paysanne Française'. The work was also reproduced in plaster, bronze, marble (one known), and Sèvres biscuit porcelain.

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This terracotta is a reduced-size version of the original 'Paysanne Française' shown at the Royal Academy in 1873, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Two more large versions are known, one also in the Victoria and Albert, and the other in the Hermitage, St Petersburg. The Fitzwilliam's is one of several reduced-size terracottas. It was accessioned as 'Maternity', but the work was known in the 19th century as 'Paysanne Française'. The work was also reproduced in plaster, bronze, marble (one known), and Sèvres biscuit porcelain.

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Text: DALOU

Location: On its proper left side

Method of creation: Incised

Type: Signature

Associated department: Applied Arts

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Accession number: M.3-1927

Primary reference Number: 29862

External ID: CAM_CCF_M_3_1927

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