Priapus Herm
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Limestone
Measurements
500 x 450 mm; 500 mm (Height); 400 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Fountains and Studley Royal, North Yorkshire
NT 530895
Summary
A limestone headless torso of a herm statue, carved in classical style, refered to as Priapus. Wearing draped toga and clasp.
Provenance
Found on site. Possibly the same herm mentioned by Celia Fiennes in her late-17th/early 18th-century accounts of country house visiting in her travels 1848-1703 (Cliveden report June 2006).
Marks and inscriptions
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References
Fiennes 1982 Celia Fiennes, The illustrated journeys of Celia Fiennes c. 1685-c. 1712 (ed. Christopher Morris), Macdonald, London, 1982