Colossal Bust of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
Details
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Title
Colossal Bust of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
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Artist/maker
Francis Legatt Chantrey ("F. Chantrey") (1781 - 1841) (sculptor) -
Associated place
England (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
1814 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Object type
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Dimensions
83.5 x 50 x 30 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Lady Chantrey, 1842.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1842.73
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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. 659
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 778
Sullivan, M.G., Sir Francis Chantrey and the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), Fig. 24
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