ECL-Bm.9:72-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.9:72-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Head of Minerva
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Four views of the head of Minerva, showing the two profiles, the front view and the top of the head.
Content (object)
head
Content (note)
See inscription for details of origin. Possibly Pallas.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 242mm
width (actual size): 299mm
width (actual size): 299mm
Inscription
The figure of the head taken up in Stall Street near y' Bell Inn in Bath, in Diging to make a common sewer in the middle of y' street on y' 20th of July 1727 about 15 foot deep supos'd to be Pallas, the Head in Brasse gild'd with gold biger than life, placed now in y' Town Hall by y' mayor and Alderman at Bath in Somersetshire written in pencil along the lower edge of the front of the drawing
Bernard Lens fecit Aug 24 1727 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower right.
Bernard Lens fecit Aug 24 1727 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower right.
Materials & techniques note
watercolour and gold wash on paper
Production
Person
Lens, Bernard, 1681 - 1740 (Artist)
Date
1727