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Cast of a statue of the crouching Venus
Plaster cast
Museum number: M364
On display: Basement West Corridor
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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This cast was previously in the collection of the artist George Romney. Purchased by John Soane at Christies. Soane Archive: Journal 4, f.366: 21 May 1801 'Paid Christie for the crouch: Venus at Romney's sale £5:5:0' and 22 May 'Paid Christie's porter for bringing the plaister cast from Hampstead 0:5:0'.
Literature
ed. Alex Kidson, The Letters of George Romney, Transactions of the Romney Society vol. 22, 2017, pp.74-75
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