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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St, Cambridge.
Founded by the legacy of the collector Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, when he died in 1816.
In his youth he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and on his death he left his vast collection to his beloved Cambridge University, thus founding its main art and antiquities museum.
The museum opened to the public in 1848.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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From Google Maps.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photo by Andrew Dunn, 2004.
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Trailer for "Treasures of the Fitzwilliam".
From Journeyman Pictures.

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

The chapel of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Photo c.1870. From here.

The library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Photo c.1870. From here.

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, is thus called because it started in 1869 in a building opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum.
This was Halstead House on Trumpington Street. Renamed Fitzwilliam Hall in 1892. Renamed Fitzwilliam House in 1922.
Fitzwilliam College later moved to a new site in N Cambridge. See street view of new site.

See Fitzwilliam College arms.

Fitzwilliam House (large building with blue door), Trumpington Street, Cambridge.
The original site of Fitzwilliam College.
Photo 2012. See full size and other shot.

Fitzwilliam House.
From Google street view.

Sources yet to be consulted

F.R. Earp
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1902.
- The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1912.
- The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1929.
J.W. Goodison
- Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University Collection, Cambridge University Press, 1955.
- Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Horst Gerson, Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1960.

Fitzwilliam Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum site
Wikimedia Commons
Flickr images and public domain images
The street opposite the museum is called Fitzwilliam St. See map.
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a hugely important collection of early English music, acquired by the 7th Viscount in 1783.