Garden sculpture
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble and limestone
Measurements
152.5 cm (H); 122 cm (L)
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Hatchlands Park, Surrey
NT 1166758
Summary
A white marble draped male figure, at the helm of a ship in neo-classical taste.
Marks and inscriptions
'Pastor cum traheret per freta navibus' (When the shepherd dragged her over the sea in his ships). This is the first line of an ode by Horace (no15, book 1) and the reference is to Paris (son of Priam, King of Troy and Hecuba) whose abduction of Helen caused the siege of Troy