Fitzwilliam Museum

/ ˌfɪtzˈwɪljəm /

noun

1. a museum, attached to Cambridge University and founded in 1816, noted esp for its paintings and collections devoted to the applied arts

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fitzwilliam Museum¹

C19: named after the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, who donated the first collection

Example Sentences

In 1873 he was Slade professor of fine art, and was appointed in the next year to the directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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This reproduction is from a copy of the print now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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There is a library attached to the Fitzwilliam Museum, bequeathed to the university in 1816.

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The Fitzwilliam Museum possesses two noble vellum choir-books of this class dated 1604 and 1605.

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A sample of the last of these years is also in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge.

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