An Austin and Seeley composition stone figure of Diana de Gabies
mid 19th century 178cm.; 70ins The original of this statue was excavated by Gavin Hamilton in 1792 on Prince Borghese~s property at Gabii outside Rome. In September 1807 it was purchased together with the bulk of the Borghese antiquities by Napoleon Bonaparte, brother- in- law of Prince Camillo Borghese. It was sent from Rome between 1808 and 1811 and by 1820 it was displayed in the Louvre where it still stands. On the advice of Sir Thomas Lawrence a plaster cast was placed in the entrance hall of the Atheneum in London. Many smaller commercial copies were also manufactured, in bronze, in basalt stoneware by Copeland and in terracotta by Blashfield. Literature: see Taste and the Antique by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Yale University press, 1981.
An Austin and Seeley composition stone figure of Diana de Gabies
mid 19th century 178cm.; 70ins The original of this statue was excavated by Gavin Hamilton in 1792 on Prince Borghese~s property at Gabii outside Rome. In September 1807 it was purchased together with the bulk of the Borghese antiquities by Napoleon Bonaparte, brother- in- law of Prince Camillo Borghese. It was sent from Rome between 1808 and 1811 and by 1820 it was displayed in the Louvre where it still stands. On the advice of Sir Thomas Lawrence a plaster cast was placed in the entrance hall of the Atheneum in London. Many smaller commercial copies were also manufactured, in bronze, in basalt stoneware by Copeland and in terracotta by Blashfield. Literature: see Taste and the Antique by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Yale University press, 1981.
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