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SM SC31. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Bas relief after the Borghese Vase
Terracotta
Height: 35.5cm
Width: 138.4cm
Width: 138.4cm
Museum number: SC31
On display: Tivoli Recess (pre-booked tours only)
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
In 2012 this relief was reinstated in its original position in the recreated Tivoli Recess as part of Phase 2 of Opening up the Soane.
Literature
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
Ella Hendriks, 'The First Patron of John Flaxman', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 126, No. 979 (October 1984), pp.618-625, ill.fig.27.
W.G. Constable, John Flaxman 1755-1826, 1927, p.85
Ella Hendriks, 'The First Patron of John Flaxman', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 126, No. 979 (October 1984), pp.618-625, ill.fig.27.
W.G. Constable, John Flaxman 1755-1826, 1927, p.85
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