print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.2531.96
- Title
- Series: Signorum Veterum Icones
- Description
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Statue of a draped Athena with an aegis bearing gorgoneion around her neck, looking straight ahead, both arms missing; front view
Etching
- Production date
- 1669-1671 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 221 millimetres
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Width: 92 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Size, present state and whereabouts are unknown. This must have been a Roman replica of the same type as the more than life-size 'Giustiniani Athena', now in the Vatican and a statue in the Palazzo Torlonia, the prototype of which is considered to have dated from c. 400 B.C. The etching shows the sculpture the right way round and was made after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn III, which was in the possession of Jan Wtenbogaert in Amsterdam. Neither this drawing nor any intermediary drawings by De Bisschop have been traced. The statue is not included in the list of contents and locations, which means he did not know where it was.
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
- 1901,1022.2531.96