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ECL-Bm.9:72-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.9:72-2013

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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

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.

Materials & techniques note

watercolour and gold wash on paper

Production

Person

Date

1727

History and association

Previous ownership

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