Emperor Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus (c.AD150-197)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
290 x 570 x 310 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486345
Summary
Antique marble head of Emperor Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus (c.AD150-197), sometime co-ruler with the Emperor Septimius Severus, on an antique bust of the same period draped in cuirass and paludamentum but which does not belong. The face is long and narrow with a full moustache and soft beard.
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
39 (painted on front of socle)