drawing
- Museum number
- 2010,5006.195
- Description
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Marble head from a statue of a faun (BM Cat. Sculpture 1661); side view
Black chalk on a sheet of paper stuck onto a second sheet, which is inlaid into a third sheet; the assemblage framed in a series of graphite and pen and red ink borders
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Width: 76 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See: Brian Cook's unpublished 'Catalogue of Charles Townley's sculpture in the British Museum', no. 118*.
Townley paid Vicenzo [Pacetti] on 29 September 1773 for the drawing (TY 8/4/1; ST 1, fo. 37v).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5006.195