Head fragment (sculpture)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1775
Materials
Marble
Measurements
240 mm (H)185 mm (W)190 mm (D)
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Downhill, County Londonderry
NT 180525
Summary
Burnt fragment of head wearing a wig, possibly of Frederick Augustus Hervey? Circa 1775. The head is over life-size and has a tall smooth brow. The hair is combed upward off the brow and forms a raised edge around the brow and over the right ear. The head wears an 18th century hairstyle. The tall balding forehead, the hair on the left side that comes forward at the corner of the brow, and simply the general arrangement of the hair recall images of the Earl Bishop, Frederick Augustus Hervey (1730-1803), the fourth Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, who built three great houses of which Downhill was one.