Modello for the monument to George Frideric Handel in Westminster Abbey
On display
Details
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Title
Modello for the monument to George Frideric Handel in Westminster Abbey
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Artist/maker
Louis François Roubiliac (1702 or 1705 - 1762) (sculptor) -
Associated people
George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) (subject) -
Associated place
England (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
1759 - c. 1762 -
Material and technique
terracotta, plaster of Paris, slate, wood; hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
98 cm (height)
122 cm plinth (height)
59 cm plinth (length)
33.5 cm plinth (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by James Wyatt, 1848.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 39 | Music and Tapestry -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1848.1
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Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 92 on p. 90, illus. p. 90 fig. 92
