print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.2531.42
- Title
- Series: Signorum Veterum Icones
- Description
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Female statue wearing a garment looking at left holding out a garland in her right hand and holding up her garment with her left hand; side view
Etching
- Production date
- 1669-1671 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres
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Width: 101 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This statue, known as the 'Farnese Flora' is now in the Museo Nazionale in Naples. The antique parts of the statue belong to a Roman adaption of the second or third century A.D. of a smaller Greek type of the fourth century B.C., perhaps from the school of Praxiteles. The head, some toes and both arms are modern. The statue was depicted from three different angles, each on separate plate. For all three plates see: 1901,1022.2531.41-43. The etchings show the statue completed in reverse. The first plate does not bear any draughtsman's name, the other two are after drawings by Doudijns. Neither these drawings have been traced, nor have any intermediary drawings by De Bisschop. In his list of contents and locations De Bisschop calls the statue a 'Flora' and says that it is in the Palazzo Farnese.
For more information about this edition and other present volumes in the British Museum see comment 1850,0810.652.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Acquisition notes
- For comment see: 1901,1022.2531.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.2531.42
