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Model, 'Resignation'. SM MRR14. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor

Model of figure, ‘Resignation’

Plaster

Height: 58.4cm

Museum number: MRR14

Not on display

Curatorial note

Model for the figure of "Resignation" executed in marble as part of a monument to Harriet, Lady Baring (d.1804) in Micheldever Church, Hants. Although the monument was executed 1809 a bas relief of the subject was exhibited in 1801 (see M217) and the final marble in 1809.

Literature

Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003

Associated items

M217, associated project


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