Plinth
Cliveden Conservation Workshop
Category
Stone
Date
Unknown
Materials
Composite stone
Measurements
1256 x 1022 x 1022 mm
Collection
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
NT 91976.6.2
Summary
Plinth for the Statue of Ourania (Urania)
Full description
This plain square plinth is a recreation of the lost eighteenth-century stone plinth. The original Stowe Nine Muses plinths are shown in the 1730’s engraving of Stowe Garden by Bernard Baron and John Francis Rigaud ‘View of the House from the Parterre’ and the 1750’s illustration and later hand-coloured engraving ’A View in the Elysian Fields from The Spring of Helicon’ (example NT 91830.5).
Provenance
Commissioned by the National Trust as part of the recreated statue of Ourania (Urania) and installed in Stowe Gardens in February 2020. This statue was recreated as part of the statue group Apollo and the Nine Muses. These statues were recreated as an artistic commission in the spirit of the lost original C18th statue group.
Makers and roles
Cliveden Conservation Workshop, creator