Hercules
Nicholas Stone (1586/7 – London 1647)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1640
Materials
Stone
Measurements
69 cm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355661
Summary
Sculpture, stone, Hercules by Nicholas Stone (1586/7 – London 1647). Made in 1640, bought by 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1732. Chip on left shin. Hercules Wood was apparently his first home at Blickling in 1793; he then moved to the garden of a cottage in the farmyard and lastly to the Orangery in 1948.
Makers and roles
Nicholas Stone (1586/7 – London 1647)