FDA-A.106-2010
Parts
FDA-A.106-2010
Identification
Cast of frieze from Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Halicarnassus plaster relief panel, north side.
Cast of frieze, showing the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons, from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (panels now in the British Museum, London).
Cast of frieze, showing the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons, from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (panels now in the British Museum, London).
This is one of two similar casts of freizes from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos (Turkey; destroyed by multiple earthquakes) showing a battle between Greeks and the Amazons. The original individual sections of the friezes are in the British Museum.
"[The original works] became the first important Geek reliefs to arrive in the British Museum since the Parthenon frieze. There was some uncertainty as to exactly where they should best be exhibited in the existing scheme of stylistic excellence, and they remained packed away. Meanwhile the Prussian Ambassador in London requested that casts might be taken in 1848 for display in Berlin, and a year later, the Museum’s in-house plaster specialist Inglis, began to make moulds. 12 sets were produced, and one was retained for Canning. Recipients included the Royal Collection of Art. Eton was not forgotten. In 1853 the College paid for the ‘carriage of marbles’ and spent three times that sum, £12 10 0, ‘for fixing friezes to the Provost’s Entrance Hall’. They have remained there ever since, following an order slightly different from the originals in the British Museum."
[Research notes by Louisa Connor, c.2000]
This work is made up of seven individual sections of freize.
"[The original works] became the first important Geek reliefs to arrive in the British Museum since the Parthenon frieze. There was some uncertainty as to exactly where they should best be exhibited in the existing scheme of stylistic excellence, and they remained packed away. Meanwhile the Prussian Ambassador in London requested that casts might be taken in 1848 for display in Berlin, and a year later, the Museum’s in-house plaster specialist Inglis, began to make moulds. 12 sets were produced, and one was retained for Canning. Recipients included the Royal Collection of Art. Eton was not forgotten. In 1853 the College paid for the ‘carriage of marbles’ and spent three times that sum, £12 10 0, ‘for fixing friezes to the Provost’s Entrance Hall’. They have remained there ever since, following an order slightly different from the originals in the British Museum."
[Research notes by Louisa Connor, c.2000]
This work is made up of seven individual sections of freize.
Description
height (actual size): 405mm
length (actual size): 900mm
length (actual size): 900mm
plaster
painted plaster
Production
pre-1852
History and association
FDA-A.175-2013 (one of a pair)
Provenance: Presented to Eton College by Stratford Canning (1786-1878) in c.1853