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SM L10. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
A statuette of Polymnia
Plaster painted in imitation of bronze
Height: 55cm
Width: 30cm
Depth: 30cm
Width: 30cm
Depth: 30cm
Museum number: L10
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Probaby modelled after a bronze original. Polymnia or Polimnia (or Polyhymnia) was the Greek muse of Sacred Poetry and hymns.
Literature
Salomon Reinach, Vatican. Vol 1. p.274
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