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SM M1411. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
Fragment of carved foliage
Undated
Marble, probably Italian marble
Height: 38cm
Width: 28cm
Width: 28cm
Museum number: M1411
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 174
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
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
This fragment is part of a large acanthus leaf from the foliate base of a Roman scroll ornament carved in high relief.
It is shown in Joseph Gandy's 1822 view of Soane's office sitting at the west end of the desk.
It is shown in Joseph Gandy's 1822 view of Soane's office sitting at the west end of the desk.
Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no.52.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 10; Drawings, 4.
Associated items
M1188, another similar
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