A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES

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Лот 25 | A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES
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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES

CIRCA 120-140 A.D.





Provenance

Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), Rome, found at the Pantanello at Hadrian's Villa in November 1769.

Sir William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, acquired from the above as a 'Bust of Mercury' in 1771 for £55 and mentioned in a letter of 1st November 1771.

Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Lansdowne, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5th March 1930, lot 16.

By direct descent in the Lansdowne Family at Bowood.



Literature

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Catalogue of the Lansdowne Marbles, 1810, lot 62.

J. Dallaway, Of Statuary and Sculpture Among the Antients with Some Account of Specimens Preserved in England, London, 1816, p. 343.

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Arachne. Datenbank und kulturelle Archive des Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik Köln und des Deutsches Archäologisches Instituts, no. 51167.
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