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A life mask of the sculptor Thomas Banks

Plaster

Museum number: M293

On display: Basement Ante-Room

Curatorial note

There is another example in the Royal Academy of Arts, London, presented by Banks' daughter Lavinia Forster in the 1850s. The RA example is dated to the 1790s and this identical one must have been made at the same time.

Exhibition history

Thomas Banks 1735-1805: Britain's First Modern Sculptor, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 January - 9 April 2005


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