Red sandstone plinth for statue of Apollino
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1775 - circa 1850
Materials
Sandstone
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516619.2
Summary
Red sandstone plinth with laurel pendants for marble statue of Apollino, Italian or British School, after the antique, c. 1775-1850.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 146-8, no. 7, fig. 76 Roper 1964: Lanning Roper, The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. The Home of Lord Fairhaven, London 1964, p. 66, pls. 43, 45. Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, p. 160.