Bust of Professor John Playfair (1748-1819)
Details
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Title
Bust of Professor John Playfair (1748-1819)
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Artist/maker
Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1841) (sculptor) -
Associated place
England (place of creation) -
Date
1812 - 1815 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Object type
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Dimensions
70.1 x 49 x 30 cm (height x width x depth)
17 kg (weight) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Lady Chantrey, 1842.
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Museum location
staircase
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1842.117
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Further reading
Poole, Mrs Reginald Lane, Catalogue of Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City, and County of Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), no. 620
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 749
Sullivan, M.G., Sir Francis Chantrey and the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), fig. 13
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