Bust of Edward Salter aged six
On displayDetails
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Title
Bust of Edward Salter aged six
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Artist/maker
John Michael Rysbrack (1694 - 1770) (sculptor) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
1748 -
Material and technique
terracotta
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Object type
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Dimensions
41.9 x 30.5 x 19.1 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased (Blakiston, France and Madan Funds) withe the aid of the Art Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, the late Mrs Eileen Stamers-Smith, the Friends of the Ashmolean, and other donors 1999.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 52 | 18th-century Art -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1999.22
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Further reading
Eustace, Katharine, ‘The Key is Locke: Hogarth, Rysbrack and the Foundling Hospital’, The British Art Journal Volume VII, No. 2, (2006)
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), illus. p. 712 no. S31
Christopher Brown, ‘The Burlington Magazine, Acquisitions (1998-2014) at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 1139, (2014), illus. p. 719