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SM M1354. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
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Cast of a relief of Mercury from one of the Barberini candelabra in the Vatican

Plaster cast

Museum number: M1354

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

Mercury is shown with a ram, the symbol of fertility. This cast is from the same ancient original as M1092 and M1355.

Associated items

M1092, cast from same original
M1355, cast from same original
M1356, set
M1357, set
M1358, set


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