mould
- Museum number
- 1938,1118.26
- Description
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Slate mould of one of John Henning's miniature reproductions of the Parthenon and Phigalia friezes. North Frieze of the Parthenon, slab I, figures 1-2, slab II, figures 3-5, slab III, figers 6-8. slab IV figure 9
- Production date
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1820
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18thC - 20thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 58 millimetres (max)
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Thickness: 7.50 millimetres (max)
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Width: 232 millimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Most of the figures have been restored by Henning, many of them after the drawings by Jacques Carrey produced in 1674.
See:
‘John Malden, ‘John Henning 1771-1851: “…a very ingenious Modeller” (1977).
John Wall, “That Most Ingenious Modeller”: The Life and Works of John Henning, Sculptor 1771 – 1851’ (2008).
Ian Jenkins, "John Henning's Frieze For the Athenaeum" in Walker, Richard and Tait Hugh, "The Athenaeum Collection" pp. 149-156 (2000).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1938,1118.26