Recent Acquisitions
Please note that recent acquisitions are not necessarily on display in the museum.
Recent Acquisitions of Drawings & Prints
An online exhibition, first produced to accompany the special display of a range of drawings and prints acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum over the ten years 1999-2009.
Scent flask
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, with engraved
and enamelled gold mounts and stopper
Capodimonte, possibly painted by Giovanni Sigismondo
Fischer, c. 1752-55, the mounts made in London, c. 1755-60
H. 10 cm
Purchased with the S.V. Finn Fund, and grants from The Art Fund, and the
Museums, Libraries and Archives/Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase
Grant Fund
C.28 & A-2007
Joseph Wright (1734-1797)
A lighthouse on fire at night
This dramatic composition is a late and highly developed treatment of a theme that fascinated Wright from his time in Rome: a dramatically lit landscape with two light sources, one natural and the other man-made.
The Newton Hall Athena
This statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and of war, has recently been allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum by HM Government, as a gift to the nation in lieu of inheritance tax.