Reproduction of Colossal Bacchus with Panther
Cliveden Conservation Workshop
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
2005
Materials
Resin
Place of origin
Taplow
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516675.2
Summary
Resin copy, Bacchus with panther, Italian (Roman) School, c. 1730, with ancient Roman fragments. A resin copy of a colossal marble statue of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, after the Praxitelean Apollo Lykeios type. The god standing in contrapposto, nude, save for a hide tied across the torso over proper left shoulder. He leans against a vine-entwined tree trunk with his proper left elbow and holds a bunch of grapes in the proper left hand. The proper right arm is raised, the forearm resting on the top of the head covered with long curling locks. A panther seated is seated by the tree trunk and looks up at Bacchus with its proper right forepaw raised. On an integral base.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
Cliveden Conservation Workshop, conservator
References
Trusted 2008: Marjorie Trusted, The Return of the Gods Neoclassical Sculpture in Britain, exh.cat. Tate Britain, London, 2008, p. 36, no. 29. Laing 2008: Alastair Laing, 'Bacchus the wanderer: the peregrinations of an antique statue between Painshill Park and Anglesey Abbey', Apollo, suppl. Historic Houses and Collections Annual April (2008), pp. 22-29 Clark 2007: Jan Clark, 'The Travails of Bacchus, the succession of owners and homes of Charles Hamilton’s Bacchus from Painshill to Anglesey Abbey [...]', Talking Heads: Garden Statuary in the Eighteenth Century [...], Buckinghamshire 2007, pp. 20–24 Kitz 1984: Norman and Beryl Kitz, Painshill Park, Hamilton and his picturesque landscape, London 1984 Roper 1964: Lanning Roper, The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. The Home of Lord Fairhaven, London 1964, p. 40, pl. 13b. Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, p. 175.