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Cast of a piece of enriched ovolo moulding from the cornice of the Temple of Vespasian, Rome

Plaster cast

Museum number: M1335

On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

The temple of Vespasian in the Forum (on the Capitoline Hill) was in Soane's day known as the Temple of Jupiter Tonans. This ovolo moulding is enriched with flowers and leaves.

Associated items

M793, another example


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