The Farnese Hercules
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Painted white terracotta
Measurements
750 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872415
Summary
Painted white terracotta miniature sculpture, The Farnese Hercules. Reproduction leaning statue of Hercules, painted white, on a square base.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1957 and given to NT by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley as part of the Endowment
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, 46