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A fragment of drapery
Carved alabaster
Height: 23cm
Museum number: M798
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 403
On display: Dome Area
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 the end of a fluttering cloak or himation, about which Tatham's own words, "a fine piece of Greek drapery - a fragment from a statue", pencilled beneath his drawing say as much as we can conclude from such meagre actual evidence.
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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 62.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 14.
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