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Cast SM M53. ©Sir John Soane's Museum. Photo: Lewis Bush.
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Cast of a chimera support from an Antique chair in the Vatican Museum

Plaster cast

Museum number: M53

On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
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

Lewis Wyatt described this in the list of his casts (Soane Archive) as a cast of 'a chimera pedestal under a sarcophagus'.

Provenance help-art-provenance

Acquired by Soane from the architect Lewis Wyatt, 1834.


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