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Bust of Palladio. SM M685. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Emily Allchurch
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Bust of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80), by Henry Cheere?

18th century

Bronze or lead

Weight: 10.4kg

Museum number: M685

On display: Colonnade - central aisle
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

Provenance help-art-provenance

Unknown. In John Soane's collection by the mid-1820s when it is shown on the east side of the Dome Area, fixed to panelling above the opening to the Colonnade (and easily identifiiable from the drapery) in a Detail of a pencil preparatory drawing for Plate VI in Britton’s Union, 1827 (in Copy of the Union, Soane Case 66).

Associated items

M317, pair


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