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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. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

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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