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Relief, figures and Temple of Apollo at Delphos, from the antique
Plaster cast
Museum number: M825
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 cast is from the same antique original as M37 and M791, although it shows only the left-hand end of the original relief.
Examples of casts from the same original are found in many European collections, see Zahle, Vol. II, p.178.
Examples of casts from the same original are found in many European collections, see Zahle, Vol. II, p.178.
Provenance
From the collection of John Flaxman, c.1835-36
Literature
Helen Dorey 'Flaxman and Soane' in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2003, 33
Tim Knox & Derry Moore, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2009, p.67 fig. 58, p.81 fig. 70.
Jan Zahle, Thorvaldsen: Collector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, 2020, Vol. II, p.177-178, Thorwaldsen inventory no. L257 and Vol. III, p.228 (illustration of Thorwaldsen example).
Tim Knox & Derry Moore, Sir John Soane's Museum, 2009, p.67 fig. 58, p.81 fig. 70.
Jan Zahle, Thorvaldsen: Collector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, 2020, Vol. II, p.177-178, Thorwaldsen inventory no. L257 and Vol. III, p.228 (illustration of Thorwaldsen example).
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