Hidden Histories: Browse by Object (JavaScript)
This option lets you find out more about a selection of objects in the Fitzwilliam Museum and explore some of the personal histories associated with them.
How did the Psalter and Hours of Isabelle of France come to be in Cambridge? How did the Cambridge Hoard make it from Chesterton Lane to the Fitzwilliam Museum?
Select a period and scroll through the objects using the left and right arrows.
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Ancient World
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Forepart of lion, prob. from door lintel
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Osiris, with blue bead necklace
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Disk with Qing emperor Qianlong's poem on the edge
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Middle Ages
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The Reichenau Epistolary
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Ivory book cover
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Fragment of a secular cup
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Stoneware and bronze kundika
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Aquamanile in shape of a lion
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The Psalter and Hours of Isabelle of France
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Silver coin from the Cambridge Hoard
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Gold coin from the Cambridge Hoard
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Mediterranean 1400-1700
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Rustici 'Mercury taking flight'
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Miniature, Missal of Pope Clement VII
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Titian 'Venus and Cupid with a lute player'
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Titian 'Tarquin and Lucretia'
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Maiolica pharmacy jar
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Panel of Damascus tiles
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Northern Europe 1400-1700
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Gold coin issued by John of Heinsberg
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Coronation coin of Maximilian I
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Mortar by Petrus van den Ghein
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Powder flask
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'Todenkopf' or close helmet
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Anthony van Dyck, Archbishop Laud
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Nicolas Poussin 'Eliezer and Rebecca'
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A. van Bolten /B. Prieur(?), 'Grotesque bird'
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Flint-lock pistol, inscribed 'Le Conte A Carhat'
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Szyszak
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18th Century
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John Wootton 'A race on the Round Course at Newmarket'
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Stubbs 'Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath'
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Japanese 4 mon sen brass coin
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Inscription on Lord Fitzwilliam's copy of 'Les Spectacles de Paris' for 1784
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19th Century
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Campana-shaped vase
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Trowel with engraved floor plan of Fitzwilliam Museum
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Photograph of W.S Blunt's mistress Lola
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Charles Fairfax Murray 'The flaming heart'
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Portrait of Catherine 'Skittles' Walters
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Hair locks of W.S. Blunt's mistress Anita
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Hair locks of a mistress of W.S. Blunt
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Harry Meader's Sea Gallantry Medal
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Edgar Degas 'Arabesque...'
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Charles Shannon 'In the house of Delia'
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20th Century
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Leopold Gautrait, Art Nouveau Enamel Brooch-Pendant
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Omar Ramsden, Quatrefoil Dish
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Charles Ricketts, Pendant
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Hair locks of Dorothy Carleton
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Edmund Dulac, 'Ricketts and Shannon...'
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Lucie Rie 'Vase'
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Hans Coper, 'Vase'
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Hans Coper 'Spade-shaped form'
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John Bellany 'Love Song: Homage to Titian'
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Featured Hidden History
Anne Hull Grundy (1926-1984)
An important benefactor, Anne Hull Grundy presented many pieces of jewellery to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Inspired by her parents, she started collecting when she was eleven. Initially a welcome escape from boring summer days spent in Cheltenham and Harrogate, it became a lifelong passion. Find out more