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Relief of a skull with a wreath of laurel and flowers
Marble
Museum number: MY2
On display: Monk's Yard
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The provenance of this relief, which must come from a grave or a funerary monument, is unknown. Soane installed it in the Monk's Yard in its present position in 1825 when the Yard was created and it forms the headstone to what he referred to as the 'Monk's Grave'.
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