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Bas relief model, ‘Mercury conveying Pandora to Epimetheus’ (see also SC46).
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Bas relief model, ‘Mercury conveying Pandora to Epimetheus’. SM M948. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
John Flaxman (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Bas relief model, ‘Mercury conveying Pandora to Epimetheus’ (see also SC46).
Plaster
Museum number: M948
Curatorial note
This panel illustrates Pandora brought to earth, a subject from the ancient Greek author Hesiod’s, Works and Days. Flaxman used this panel as the inspiration for one of his line illustrations to Works and Days, published in 1817. Soane acquired two versions (the other, SC46 much smaller).
Literature
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: worksofart@soane.org.uk