A Roman Man holding a Scroll
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
248 x 100 x 65 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485296
Summary
Bronze sculpture, A Roman Man holding a Scroll, Roman School. A seventeenth century bronze statuette of a partially draped Roman older man holding a scroll. [83a Roman Gladiator type]
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
83 (on front of base)