Isis
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lead and Stone
Measurements
1750 mm (Height)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872424.2
Summary
Lead sculpture, Isis, by John Cheere (1709 – London 1787). One of a set of four lead life-size statues in alcoves on the west front of the house. Isis, draped holding a winder in the right hand and a pitcher in the left, on a square plinth. From a marble in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not documented, but at Saltram by c.1760 and thence by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted by H.M. Treasury from his Executors as part of the fabric of Saltram House in part payment of death duties and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787), sculptor