ECL-Bn.15:147-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.15:147-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Bust: Homer
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
The head is of a bearded man with his gaze cast down, his hair combed forward beneath a fillet. The head was broken from the body at the neck. It sits on a turned pedestal.
Inscribed lower left: G. Vertue Sculp.
Inscribed along lower edge: HOMERUS De aereo capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Musaeo/ celeberrimi Viri, Richardi Mead M.D.
Antiquissima Homeri statua egregii operis, ut describit Cedrenus, Constantinopoli, Iustiniano/ Imperante, incendio periisse dicitur: statuae autem illius hoc esse caput, ex ruderibus postea/ feliciter servatum, cum ex oris figura et lineamentis, tum ex manifestis liquefacti metalli indiciis, conjectari licet. Vid. Cedren. Histor. Compend. Cap. 149
Inscribed lower left: G. Vertue Sculp.
Inscribed along lower edge: HOMERUS De aereo capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Musaeo/ celeberrimi Viri, Richardi Mead M.D.
Antiquissima Homeri statua egregii operis, ut describit Cedrenus, Constantinopoli, Iustiniano/ Imperante, incendio periisse dicitur: statuae autem illius hoc esse caput, ex ruderibus postea/ feliciter servatum, cum ex oris figura et lineamentis, tum ex manifestis liquefacti metalli indiciis, conjectari licet. Vid. Cedren. Histor. Compend. Cap. 149
Content (object)
bust
Dimensions
height (actual size): 351mm
width (actual size): 254mm
width (actual size): 254mm
Inscription
See Description:
Inscribed lower left: G. Vertue Sculp.
Inscribed along lower edge: HOMERUS De aereo capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Musaeo/ celeberrimi Viri, Richardi Mead M.D.
Antiquissima Homeri statua egregii operis, ut describit Cedrenus, Constantinopoli, Iustiniano/ Imperante, incendio periisse dicitur: statuae autem illius hoc esse caput, ex ruderibus postea/ feliciter servatum, cum ex oris figura et lineamentis, tum ex manifestis liquefacti metalli indiciis, conjectari licet. Vid. Cedren. Histor. Compend. Cap. 149
Inscribed lower left: G. Vertue Sculp.
Inscribed along lower edge: HOMERUS De aereo capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Musaeo/ celeberrimi Viri, Richardi Mead M.D.
Antiquissima Homeri statua egregii operis, ut describit Cedrenus, Constantinopoli, Iustiniano/ Imperante, incendio periisse dicitur: statuae autem illius hoc esse caput, ex ruderibus postea/ feliciter servatum, cum ex oris figura et lineamentis, tum ex manifestis liquefacti metalli indiciis, conjectari licet. Vid. Cedren. Histor. Compend. Cap. 149
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Vertue, George, 1684 - 1756 (Engraver)
Date
c.1710-1730