Stone block plinth
probably French School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Stone
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516645.2
Summary
Stone block plinth for limestone terminal figure of Hercules, probably French School or British (English) School, probably 18th century, after Louis Le Conte, Le Conte de Boulogne (1639-94). The figure terminates in a tapering square pillar. Paired with NT 516646.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
probably French School, sculptor possibly British (English) School, sculptor
References
Roper 1964: Lanning Roper, The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. The Home of Lord Fairhaven, London 1964, p. 30, pl. 78. Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, p. 167. Rosasco 2015: Betsy Rosasco, 'The Herms of Versailles in the 1680s',The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 76, no. 1-2 (Winter 2015), pp. 145-175.