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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor
‘The cup of Theocritus’, c.1817
Plaster relief, glazed
Height: 20.4cm
Width: 20.4cm
Depth: 4.6cm
Width: 20.4cm
Depth: 4.6cm
Museum number: BR26
On display: Breakfast Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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This small relief is in a frame glazed with yellow glass and set into the Breakfast Room chimneypiece (see also BR25, BR27).
According to an early inventory of the Museum this was the model of a piece of plate intended to be presented to Dr Goddard. William Stanley Goddard (1757-1845) was headmaster of Winchester College from 1806-1809.
According to an early inventory of the Museum this was the model of a piece of plate intended to be presented to Dr Goddard. William Stanley Goddard (1757-1845) was headmaster of Winchester College from 1806-1809.
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
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