cameo
- Museum number
- 1994,1206.4.a-e
- Description
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Three uncut hardstones for cameos, one half cut, and one larger one with unfinished portrait of Cardinal Manning, together with a plaster cast of cameo of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, and a red sealing-wax cast of a Silenus head.
- Production date
- 1870-1908
- Dimensions
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Length: 31 millimetres (plaster cast)
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Length: 15 millimetres (wax cast)
- Curator's comments
- Used by James Ronca, born 1826, died after 1908, working in London from the late 1860s. See 1994,1206.1.a-u, tools for cutting shell cameos, and also 1994,1206.2 and 3, partly cut shell cameos and Ronca'e lathe for cutting hardstone cameos.
In set with 1994,1206,1-3
See J. Rudoe, 'James Ronca: cameo-cutter to Queen Victoria', in 'Le Gemme Incise Nel Settecento e Ottocento. Continuità della Tradizione Classica, Cataloghi e monografie archaeologiche dei Civici Musei di Udine -7, Rome 2006, pp. 129-143, figs. 2 and 13.
- Location
- On display (G47/dc8)
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- Formerly owned by James Ronca, the great-grandfather of the donor's husband. See 1992,0508.1
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1994,1206.4.a-e