A Hora (Winter)
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
455 mm (Depth)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486322
Summary
Marble (head is of Parian marble), A Hora (Winter), Roman work based on 4th century BC type. Marble draped figure of a girl standing with the head turned slightly to the right. The right arm carries suspended from the fingers, three birds, one a dove, and with the left hand a hare by its fore-legs.
Provenance
Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont thence 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
16 (painted on front of base)
Makers and roles
Roman, restorer