Michael Rysbrack 1694-1770
English, early 18th century Woden (Wednesday) inscribed: ******* Portland stone statue 173.5cm.; 68¼in, base 21.5cm.; 8½ins by 71cm.; 28in by 71cm.; 28in Provenance: Commissioned by Sir Richard Temple 1st Viscount Cobham; Stowe Sale, 11 October 1922, lots 3792-99; Northcliffe School, Grove Place, Southampton; Philips Sale, 18 June 1985, lot 168, illus. and back cover The Aspinall Foundation Literature: From George West~s Stowe Gardens a Poem, published 1732 ~And warlike Woden. fam~d from martial Deeds, From whom great Brunswick~s noble line proceeds.~ Seeley~s Description of the Gardens at Stow, Northampton 1744, p.8 Susan Moore ~Hail! Gods of Our Fore-fathers, Rysbrack~s ~lost~ Saxon Deities at Stowe~, Country Life, 31 January 1985, illus J. Kenworthy-Browne. ~Rysbrack~s Saxon Deities~, Apollo, September 1985, p. 220-7, fig. 5.
Michael Rysbrack 1694-1770
English, early 18th century Woden (Wednesday) inscribed: ******* Portland stone statue 173.5cm.; 68¼in, base 21.5cm.; 8½ins by 71cm.; 28in by 71cm.; 28in Provenance: Commissioned by Sir Richard Temple 1st Viscount Cobham; Stowe Sale, 11 October 1922, lots 3792-99; Northcliffe School, Grove Place, Southampton; Philips Sale, 18 June 1985, lot 168, illus. and back cover The Aspinall Foundation Literature: From George West~s Stowe Gardens a Poem, published 1732 ~And warlike Woden. fam~d from martial Deeds, From whom great Brunswick~s noble line proceeds.~ Seeley~s Description of the Gardens at Stow, Northampton 1744, p.8 Susan Moore ~Hail! Gods of Our Fore-fathers, Rysbrack~s ~lost~ Saxon Deities at Stowe~, Country Life, 31 January 1985, illus J. Kenworthy-Browne. ~Rysbrack~s Saxon Deities~, Apollo, September 1985, p. 220-7, fig. 5.
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