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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Cast of a medallion, self-portrait
Plaster in a glazed frame
Museum number: SC43
On display: Staircase - first to second floor (pre-booked tours only)
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
This is a cast of a terracotta modelled by Flaxman while he was still a young student at the Royal Academy (the terracotta is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum).
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
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