The Farnese Hercules
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Fine white limestone and oolitic limestone on a limestone block
Measurements
1900 x 1020 x 1020 mm
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Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1144082
Summary
Fine Portland limestone figure, on an oolitic limestone block pedestal, The Farnese Hercules. Life size figure.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 46