2-888-472 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Founder's Cup, Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1850. Item from an 'Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Society of Arts, in John-street, Adelphi', [London]...the chief attraction consists in the metal works of the celebrated Benvenuto Cellini, who was born at Florence in the year 1500, and, having been patronized at the Court of Francis I. of France, a fitting theatre was afforded him for the execution of those great masterpieces which have rendered his name so famous. The Founder's Cup, from Emanuel College, Cambridge...is a good specimen of his skill'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.